Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Parallel translations
- WEB Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
- KJV Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
- NKJV Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
- NASB Watch the path of your feet, And all your ways will be established.
- NLT Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.
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Quick answer
Make level paths for your feet and let your ways be sure. Thoughtful, deliberate living keeps one on a stable course.
Overview
The image shifts to the feet: consider your path carefully and establish your ways, removing obstacles and choosing a sure course. Wisdom involves forethought about the direction and consequences of one's conduct. Such ordered living reflects the steadiness God gives to those who walk in his ways (Ps 37:23).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- Heb 12:13Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
- Ps 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Prov 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Ps 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Eph 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
- Ps 40:2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
- Prov 5:6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
- Eph 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
- 1 Pet 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
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