What Does the Bible Say About Following Own Path To God?

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

John 14:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

John 8:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

James 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Luke 14:25-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, ...

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

32 Bible Verses about Following Own Path To God

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 18 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 8:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 14:25-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Following Own Path To God

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Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 18 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 12 helpful votes

John 8:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 14:25-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote