Proverbs 4:11
I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
BSB
ASV
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in paths of uprightness.
KJV
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
There is only one way of truth, but different paths from different places join it, just like tributaries flowing into a perennial river. So these are really inspired words: "Hear, my son, and accept my words, to have many paths of life. I am teaching you the ways of wisdom, so that its springs may never fail you"—that is, those which spurt from the same soil. He is not merely affirming that there is more than one path of salvation for a single righteous person. He adds that there are plenty of righteous people and plenty of routes for them.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 23:3He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
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I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These…
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.
Through
Proverbs 8:9They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
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A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
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Proverbs 8:6Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.
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When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching,
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
