89 Bible Verses About Spiritual Formation

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

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.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

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:

Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.

And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.