What Does the Bible Say About Walking?

Micah 6:8 ESV / 181 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 134 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 115 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Genesis 5:24 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

Amos 3:3 ESV / 105 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 97 helpful votes

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 John 1:7 ESV / 96 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

1 John 2:6 ESV / 76 helpful votes

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Luke 24:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes

While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Colossians 2:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

Genesis 5:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 32 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.

Genesis 3:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Leviticus 26:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Job 31:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;

Deuteronomy 8:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.

1 John 1:6-7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 8:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Genesis 17:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,

Luke 24:13-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. ...

Luke 10:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.

Psalm 128:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways!

Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Romans 13:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Galatians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

Galatians 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 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, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Luke 24:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”

Luke 24:13-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad. ...

Luke 24:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.

Luke 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

Proverbs 4:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Proverbs 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.

Proverbs 4:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Psalm 119:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 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.

Luke 21:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

1 John 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Acts 2:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”

Acts 2:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.

Luke 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Mark 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

81 Bible Verses about Walking

Micah 6:8 ESV / 181 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 134 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 115 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 5:24 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 3:3 ESV / 105 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:7 ESV / 96 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:1 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:6 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 61 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 5:22 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 26:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 31:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 8:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:6-7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 17:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:13-32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 10:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 128:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 22:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 13:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:30-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:13-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:13-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 2:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful