Chapter Twelve

Walking with God

This next part deals with our trek through life. How we walk on a daily basis. Very few of these verses will use the word "walk" in the physical transportation mode. Most of them deal with how we conduct ourselves in God's kingdom and of our conduct in the physical world. We can call this our manner of lifestyle. Once again, read these verses in their context to see how "walk" is used.

Genesis 17:1 (NKJV) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

Exodus 16:4 (NKJV) Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.

Exodus 18:20 (NKJV) "And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

Leviticus 18:3 (NKJV) 'According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 18:4 (NKJV) 'You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 5:33 (NKJV) "You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 6:7 (NKJV) "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 8:6 (NKJV) "Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Deuteronomy 10:12 (NKJV) "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deuteronomy 11:22 (NKJV) "For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do; to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him;

Deuteronomy 13:4 (NKJV) "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

Deuteronomy 26:17 (NKJV) "Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.

Judges 2:22 (NKJV) "so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the LORD, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not."

1 Kings 6:12 (NKJV) "Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.

1 Kings 8:61 (NKJV) "Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day."

Psalms 84:11 (NKJV) For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.

Psalms 86:11 (NKJV) Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.

Psalms 119:1 (NKJV) Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the LORD!

Psalms 119:3 (NKJV) They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.

Psalms 119:35 (NKJV) Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.

Proverbs 2:7 (NKJV) He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;

Isaiah 2:3 (NKJV) Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 42:24 (NKJV) Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the LORD, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to His law.

Jeremiah 6:16 (NKJV) Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

Jeremiah 42:3 (NKJV) "that the LORD your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do."

Ezekiel 37:24 (NKJV) "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

Hosea 14:9 (NKJV) Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

Micah 6:8 (NKJV) He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

John 8:12 (NKJV) Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

Romans 8:1 (NKJV) There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Galatians 5:16 (NKJV) I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:25 (NKJV) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:1 (NKJV) I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Ephesians 5:2 (NKJV) And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

Ephesians 5:8 (NKJV) For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

Ephesians 5:15 (NKJV) See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

Philippians 3:16 (NKJV) Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

Philippians 3:17 (NKJV) Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.

Colossians 1:10 (NKJV) that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 2:6 (NKJV) As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Colossians 4:5 (NKJV) Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

1 Thessalonians 2:12 (NKJV) that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:1 (NKJV) Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

1 John 1:7 (NKJV) But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 2:6 (NKJV) He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

2 John 1:6 (NKJV) This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

3 John 1:3 (NKJV) For I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the truth.

3 John 1:4 (NKJV) I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

Jesus described the way to God as being narrow and straight. We must walk directly towards God and heaven. Our goal is heaven and we must walk in such a way that God will invite us in. We cannot drift around. We must be diligent to stay on that narrow pathway. We may have to leave others we care about on another pathway. We cannot go with the masses, because their way leads to destruction. We cannot enjoy the pleasures of the world and stay on the straight and narrow. The choice is ours. God by His mercy and grace has given us the two options to choose from. We must make the right choice. Only you can do that. No one can do it for you. Others can help you, but nobody can force you. You must willingly live your life on the pathway that leads to heaven. The Bible is the roadmap, other Christians are your guiding lights, and Jesus is the way.

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