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Bible verses about direction and guidance
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This is the topic where verse websites most often go wrong. A passage in which a particular person receives a particular instruction is not an instruction to whoever reads it next, and treating it that way can lead people into decisions they later regret.
The passages gathered here talk about guidance as a general matter — about wisdom, counsel, patience and paying attention. They do not tell you whether to take the job, end the relationship or make the move. Nothing on this site does, and anything that claims to should be treated with suspicion.
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5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counsellors they are established.
4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths. 5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory.
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible British Edition, which is in the public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org.