100 Bible Verses About God's Guidance
Bible verses about God's Guidance
The path of life can often feel uncertain, filled with twists and turns that leave us questioning our direction. Yet, within the scriptures, we find a constant and unwavering promise of God's guidance. These verses are not merely words on a page, but a lifeline connecting us to the divine wisdom that illuminates our way. By studying these passages, we open our hearts to receive the Holy Spirit's gentle nudging, allowing God's perfect plan to unfold in our lives. Embrace the transformative power of understanding God's guidance through scripture, and walk confidently knowing you are never truly alone.
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Job 36:10 (KJV)
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Find Your Path: Bible Verses for God's Guidance
And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it.
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers.
Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the Lord is your way wherein ye go.
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan–aram, and blessed him.
Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.
I am the God of Beth–el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;
Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
Nevertheless for David’s sake did the Lord his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.
The Lord your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
The verses explored reveal a consistent and reassuring truth: God's guidance is a constant, active force in the lives of those who seek Him. From the familiar promise of Proverbs 3:5-6 to the comforting words of Isaiah 41:10, Scripture overflows with assurances of divine direction, wisdom, and unwavering support. These verses are not just historical accounts but living testaments to God's desire to lead us along paths of righteousness and purpose. As you reflect on these passages, consider how you can actively invite God's guidance into your daily decisions, trusting in His unfailing love and wisdom. May you find comfort and confidence in knowing that He is always present, always willing to guide, and always faithful to His promises. Let His Word illuminate your path, empowering you to walk in His will and experience the abundant life He has planned for you.