100 Bible Verses About Guidance

Bible verses about Guidance

Seeking guidance is a fundamental human desire, and the Bible offers a profound source of wisdom for navigating life's complexities. Through scripture, we discover that God's guidance isn't a passive concept, but an active, loving presence available to all who seek it with an open heart. These verses illuminate the diverse ways God leads us – through wisdom, discernment, prayer, and the Holy Spirit's prompting. Understanding biblical guidance equips us to make righteous choices, find purpose in our journey, and trust that we are never truly alone on our path. Let these verses be a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path, revealing the divine direction available to you.

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Psalms 25:7 (WEB)

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Find Your Path: Bible Verses for Guidance

They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.

Jeremiah 44:10YLT

For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:23WEB

Wherefore, if they shall say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.

Matthew 24:26WEB

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Daniel 9:17KJV

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Proverbs 6:35KJV

To him who smote great kings: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

Psalms 136:17WEB

I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when [there was] no strange [god] among you: therefore ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I [am] God.

Isaiah 43:12WEB

Jesus saith to him, Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

John 4:50YLT

Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not--a statute age-during to your generations;

Leviticus 10:9YLT

And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Psalms 130:8KJV

Woe to the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

Isaiah 5:22YLT

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly--with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

1 Corinthians 9:17YLT

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Psalms 55:23WEB

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1 Samuel 10:3KJV

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Psalms 22:4WEB

Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Acts 9:31KJV

And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord.

Joshua 24:21KJV

Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose:

Deuteronomy 14:25KJV

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:1WEB

And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

Acts 14:26KJV

Then he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman who was a Jewess, and believed, but his father [was] a Greek.

Acts 16:1WEB

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

Jeremiah 50:44KJV

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Hebrews 12:15KJV

For their redeemer [is] mighty; he will plead their cause with thee.

Proverbs 23:11WEB

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

1 Timothy 6:20YLT

Now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in languages, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

1 Corinthians 14:6WEB

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I may live to God.

Galatians 2:19WEB

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

1 Thessalonians 2:16WEB

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 8:9KJV

and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

Acts 18:8YLT

And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, believed not.

Mark 16:11WEB

And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

Exodus 12:28KJV

Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Psalms 16:1WEB

to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!

2 Timothy 1:2YLT

And Rab–shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

2 Kings 18:19KJV

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

Jeremiah 10:12KJV

Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Psalms 110:3YLT

And he cometh the third time, and saith to them, Sleep on henceforth, and rest--it is over; the hour did come; lo, the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of the sinful;

Mark 14:41YLT

for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

Hebrews 7:12YLT

And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:

Numbers 6:13KJV

And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

Exodus 33:9KJV

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ!

Romans 1:7YLT

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

Matthew 7:23YLT

And Boaz answered and said to her, It hath fully been shown to me, all that thou hast done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and hast come to a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

Ruth 2:11WEB

And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isaiah 62:12WEB

And the rest of the matters of Hezekiah, and his kind acts, lo, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:32YLT

But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you].

1 Peter 5:10WEB

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 7:4WEB

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Joshua 8:34WEB

The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Titus 2:3WEB

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

2 Kings 1:18KJV

For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalms 18:28KJV

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Psalms 141:4KJV

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 4:22KJV

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:19WEB

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Psalms 119:154KJV

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Psalms 17:8KJV

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 21:21KJV

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.

Deuteronomy 5:31WEB

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

1 Corinthians 9:20KJV

After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

Mark 8:25KJV

And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Galatians 6:16KJV

Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works--who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

Titus 3:8YLT

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Psalms 119:9KJV

For the word of God [is] living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12WEB

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Romans 16:24KJV

And I also, I smite My hand on my hand, And have caused My fury to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.'

Ezekiel 21:17YLT

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Proverbs 22:21KJV

And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Mark 7:18KJV

But when Jesus heard [it], he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be healed.

Luke 8:50WEB

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Proverbs 16:3KJV

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Psalms 53:4KJV

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Ecclesiastes 4:13KJV

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Psalms 96:9WEB

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause,

1 Kings 8:49WEB

Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed--on Egypt--which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it--so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

Isaiah 36:6YLT

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Acts 22:3KJV

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

1 Chronicles 2:4KJV

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

1 Corinthians 15:43KJV

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 3:11KJV

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Psalms 25:7WEB

my God hath sent His messenger, and hath shut the lions' mouths, and they have not injured me: because that before Him purity hath been found in me; and also before thee, O king, injury I have not done.'

Daniel 6:22YLT

In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.

Isaiah 19:19KJV

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

Revelation 9:20YLT

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Philippians 1:29KJV

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 4:33KJV

That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:21WEB

And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

Luke 2:24KJV

[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Job 3:18WEB

For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

1 Samuel 1:27KJV

But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

John 12:37WEB

And I, [even] I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers who [are] beyond the river, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

Ezra 7:21WEB

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing is revealed to Daniel, whose name is called Belteshazzar, and the thing is true, and the warfare is great: and he hath understood the thing, and hath understanding about the appearance.

Daniel 10:1YLT

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Matthew 7:3KJV

The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

Daniel 4:11KJV

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Ecclesiastes 8:4KJV

and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

Deuteronomy 4:8YLT

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

Deuteronomy 32:37KJV

But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

Psalms 31:14KJV

Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This [is] the law of the burnt-offering: It [is] the burnt-offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

Leviticus 6:9WEB

The Bible offers a wealth of wisdom for those seeking guidance, and the verses explored here represent only a fraction of the direction available within its pages. From Proverbs urging us to seek wisdom and understanding to Psalms emphasizing God's steadfast path, the common thread is clear: surrendering to a higher power leads to clearer vision. Verses like Isaiah 48:17 remind us that God's instruction is for our benefit, not His. Reflecting on these passages should prompt a deeper consideration of our reliance on God's word in daily decision-making. Whether facing monumental life changes or simply navigating daily routines, prayerful consideration of scripture can illuminate the path forward, fostering a life characterized by purpose, peace, and divine direction. Let these verses serve as a constant reminder to seek God's guidance in all aspects of your life.