What Does the Bible Say About Steps Are Ordered?

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 107 helpful votes

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 55 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.

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Psalm 37:23-24 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord upholds his hand.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Joshua 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

Psalm 40:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 21 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.

Psalm 121:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

Psalm 37:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord upholds his hand.

Proverbs 20:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes

A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?

Psalm 17:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

1 Samuel 2:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. ...

Proverbs 5:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 13 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Deuteronomy 28:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

John 3:16 ESV / 11 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.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Acts 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

James 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But all things should be done decently and in order.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Psalm 3:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Psalm 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

1 Samuel 30:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

Job 14:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;

2 Kings 20:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And Isaiah the prophet called to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ...

Matthew 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Genesis 37:1-42:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ...

46 Bible Verses about Steps Are Ordered

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 107 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 63 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:23-24 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 121:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:24 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 17:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 2:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 5:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 28:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 2:5 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 30:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 14:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 20:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 37:1-42:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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