Proverbs 8:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:32 : 32 Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
  • John 10:27-28 : 27 My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me: 28 And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
  • Ps 23:3 : 3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.
  • Ps 25:4-5 : 4 Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways. 5 Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
  • Ps 32:8 : 8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
  • Prov 3:6 : 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
  • Prov 4:11-12 : 11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way. 12 When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.
  • Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you. 26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered. 27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
  • Prov 6:22 : 22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
  • Isa 2:3 : 3 And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
  • Isa 49:10 : 10 They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.
  • Isa 55:4 : 4 See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.
  • John 10:3 : 3 The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.

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  • Prov 4:11
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    11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

  • Prov 2:20
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    20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 8:18-19
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    18 Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

    19 My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

  • Prov 2:8-9
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    8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

    9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

  • Prov 8:21
    77%

    21 So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

  • Isa 26:7
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    7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

  • Ps 5:8
    75%

    8 Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

  • Ps 85:13
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    13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

  • Prov 12:28
    74%

    28 In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

  • Prov 8:14-16
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    73%

    14 Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

    15 Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.

    16 Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

  • Ps 26:11
    73%

    11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • Ps 17:4-5
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    4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

    5 I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.

  • Job 23:11
    72%

    11 My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.

  • Prov 16:8-9
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    8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

    9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.

  • Prov 8:8
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    8 All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.

  • Hos 14:9
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    9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

  • Prov 8:2
    71%

    2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Prov 3:17
    71%

    17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 8:6
    71%

    6 Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

  • Prov 8:32
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    32 Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • Prov 4:18
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    18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

  • Job 19:8
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    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Ps 119:35
    71%

    35 Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

  • Ps 119:30
    71%

    30 I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.

  • Prov 2:13
    71%

    13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

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    12 I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

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    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

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    6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

  • Ps 23:3
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    3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

  • Prov 3:6
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    6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

  • Ps 26:1
    70%

    1 <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

  • Prov 21:21
    70%

    21 He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

  • Ps 7:8
    70%

    8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

  • Ps 18:21
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    21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

  • Ps 25:10
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    10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

  • Prov 13:6
    70%

    6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

  • Prov 16:17
    70%

    17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • Jer 12:1
    70%

    1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

  • Prov 11:5
    69%

    5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

  • 2 Sam 22:23
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    23 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

  • Ps 94:15
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    15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

  • Ps 18:23
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    23 And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.