5 Bible verses about guidance, each quoted word for word from the World English Bible, with a one-line note on where it sits in scripture.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
One line from the longest psalm, entirely about the value of God's instruction.
and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
Part of a passage contrasting empty religious ritual with real, lived-out faith.
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
A psalm by someone who nearly gave up his faith after watching wrongdoers prosper.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
David, writing after a season of hiding wrongdoing before finally being honest about it.
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
The proverb encourages careful, steady direction in one's path through life.
Where could a person wander that guidance would no longer be able to reach them?
even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
What does it look like to wait on direction rather than rushing ahead alone?
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
Scripture is quoted word for word from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.
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