Proverbs 4:26
Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
BSB
ASV
Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.
KJV
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
LETTER 31:3 (444)
We remember holy Scripture crying out, "Make straight the path for your feet, and direct your ways." They who honor the straight paths "run toward the goal to the prize of the heavenly calling in Christ." But those who pay no heed to the apostolic and evangelical tradition and honor the newer, useless and truly ridiculous invention of their own mind, let them hear from all, "Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which your fathers have set."
Ponder the path of thy feet,.... Consider well what path it is, whether right or wrong; or weigh it in the balances of thought, as Aben Ezra; or rather in the balances of the word, and see whether it agrees with that or not. The Septuagint version is, "make straight paths for thy feet"; to which the author of the epistle to the Hebrews seems to have respect, Heb 12:13; and let all thy walls be established; so as to walk on steadily, constantly, uniformly, and not be easily moved out of the ways of religion and truth.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
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A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
He 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.
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2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
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And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
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Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
