Proverbs 4:26 {27}
Good News Translation
Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.

New Revised Standard Version
Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Contemporary English Version
Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.

New American Bible
Survey the path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

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Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

ponder

Proverbs 5:6 Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Psalm 119:59 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

Haggai 1:5,7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Ephesians 5:15,17 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise, . . .

let all thy ways be established

Psalm 37:23 With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall like well his way.

Psalm 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

Context
A Father's Instruction
25Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. 26Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.27My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:13
And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Psalm 119:5
O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

Proverbs 4:25
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.

Proverbs 5:6
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:21
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Proverbs 4:25
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