The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. ii. Bible Verses Like Hebrews 12:13 “And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.” Proverbs 4:26-27 - Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Deut 6:6. NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the The crooked places have to be made straight, and the rough places smoothed. Jeremiah 6:16 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 … A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated, [This chapter is based on 1 Kings 19:9-18.] The guilty walk a crooked path; the innocent travel a straight road. 7. I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight: I will break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars. Evil people desire evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them. 16); yet it has pleased his majesty to reveal himself to us in his word, so far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. Love has pierced the heart that brake, Loveless sinner, for thy sake. Deut 4:49. 1. God never bids us seek him in vain' (Isaiah 45:19). 35; xxxii. Those that hunger after righteousness shall be filled. At the entrance to the cave wherein Elijah had taken refuge, God met with him, through a mighty angel sent to inquire into his needs and to make plain the divine purpose for Israel. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. ii. Proverbs 16:9 - God doesn't always bring us from point A to point B with a straight line. A: There is but one only, the living and true God. xlv. iv. Evil people desire evil; their neighbors get no mercy from them. And make the crooked places even.] Through Isaiah the word had been spoken: "Thus saith the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose, Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. 1. - King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted. There is a medieval saying you may have heard: "God draws straight lines with crooked sticks." Look again, O soul, behold Him On the cross uplifted high; See the precious life-blood flowing, See the tears that dim His eye. A Christian fighting with sin is not like one that beats the air' (1 Corinthians 9:26), and his hungering after righteousness is not like one that sucks in only air, Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall be filled.' 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