Proverbs 4:26 “Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.”

Proverbs 4:26

Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

World English Bible

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

American Standard Version

Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.

Darby Translation

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.

Young's Literal Translation

Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.

Bible in Basic English

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

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Cross references

“Ponder”

Haggai 1:5 Haggai 1:7 Psalm 119:59 Ezekiel 18:28 Ephesians 5:15 Proverbs 5:6

Haggai 1:5 · BSB

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 1:7 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Psalm 119:59 · BSB

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

Ezekiel 18:28 · BSB

Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

Ephesians 5:15 · BSB

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Proverbs 5:6 · BSB

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

“let all thy ways be established”

Psalm 37:23 2 Thessalonians 3:3 Psalm 40:2 1 Thessalonians 3:13 1 Peter 5:10

Psalm 37:23 · BSB

The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 · BSB

But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

Psalm 40:2 · BSB

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 · BSB

so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

1 Peter 5:10 · BSB

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Also

Hebrews 12:13 Psalm 119:5 Proverbs 5:21

Hebrews 12:13 · BSB

Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

Psalm 119:5 · BSB

Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

Proverbs 5:21 · BSB

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

27Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

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