100 Bible Verses About Following God's Will

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.

These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

And David did so, as the Lord had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not.

Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

But that ye must turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God.

Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:

That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.

And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.

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

I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.

And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.