Bible Verses About The Two Ways And Christian Morality

In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Commandments, walking, and life in the land.

And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

Direct life/death wording.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Central Bible root for life and death choice.

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Narrow gate and wide way parallel.

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Opposite road leading to life.

In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

Righteous path versus death.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Walk after his commandments.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Way of righteous and wicked.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Walk in all the way commanded by the Lord

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

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The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Righteous way versus astray way.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Do not walk in the evil path.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Walking in God's ways and fearing him

After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.

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The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

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He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Walking as Christ walked.

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

Way of the LORD versus destruction.

I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

Walk in God's statutes and judgments

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

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There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

A way that seems right but ends in death.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

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There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

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He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

Keeping the commandment keeps life

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Righteousness leads to life.

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Moses and life by doing the commandment

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Good versus evil conduct.

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

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Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

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