The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
- BSB He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
- NKJV The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way.
- NASB He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way.
- NLT He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.
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Quick answer
God guides and teaches the humble in justice and his way. The lowly and teachable are the ones God leads.
Overview
This verse declares that God directs the humble in what is right and instructs them in his way. Humility, a teachable and dependent spirit, is the condition for receiving God's guidance. The proud resist instruction, but the lowly are led by God, a pattern fulfilled in Christ, who is gentle and lowly and welcomes the humble to learn from him.
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- Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
- Ps 23:3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- Matt 5:5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
- John 14:6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- 1 Pet 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
- Gal 5:23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
- Ezek 36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
- Ps 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
- Zeph 2:3Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’s anger.
- Ps 143:10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
- Ps 147:6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
- Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- Ezek 11:19–20And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
- Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Isa 42:1–3Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
- 1 Pet 3:4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
- Ps 22:26The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
- Ps 32:8–9I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
- Ps 27:11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
- Ps 73:24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Ps 76:9When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
- Prov 8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
- Heb 10:20By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
- Ps 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- Isa 11:4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
- Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- Acts 9:2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
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