Quotes About Ways

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

The prophets told you, ëTurn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

Yet you say, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Yet the house of Israel says, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,í declares the Lord GOD.”

Yet you say, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.

The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ëJust as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.í”

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?