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The Lord Jesus Christ said: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” – John 14:6

The Lord’s Way is revealed many times in Scripture, showing us ‘the Way’ to everlasting salvation.

Scripture also warns against the false way – the wrong way – the broad way – which leads to destruction: “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.  For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” – Matthew 7:13-14

How ironic that the very well known street in New York City where all the ‘look at me’ people strut their stuff is called: ‘Broadway’.

In 2 Peter 2:1-3 we have the one true way contrasted with false prophets and false teachers and their many ‘destruction ways’: “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.  Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.”

The choice is ours.  “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live … I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.  So choose life in order that you may live.” – Deuteronomy 30:15-19 

On another note, the above phrase: ‘who will secretly introduce destructive heresies’ is also so very important.  ‘New teachings’ have in more recent times been introduced in the Church – the Pre-Trib Rapture and Once Saved, Always Saved heresies to name two – very serious heresies with dire consequences.  The Bible warned against deceptions.  Refer to my other articles for further details on these topics: Pre or Post Tribulation Rapture  and Can you Fall Away OR is it Once Saved, Always Saved?

The following is a selection of Scripture verses about The Way – the Lord Jesus Christ:

• “For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice.” – Genesis 18:19
• “You shall walk in all the way 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 …” – Deuteronomy 5:33
• “As for God, His way is blameless” – 2 Samuel 22:31
• “Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to Walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies … ” – 1 Kings 2:3
• “ … if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments … then I will be with you.” – 1 Kings 11:38
• “teach them the good way in which they should walk” – 2 Chronicles 6:27
• “He took great pride in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.” – 2 Chronicles 17:6
• “Make Your way straight before me.” – Psalm 5:8
• “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He instructs sinners in the way.  He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way.” – Psalm 25:8-9
• “Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a level path.” – Psalm 27:11
• “That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.” – Psalm 67:2
• “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.” – Psalm 86:11
• “teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes” – Psalm 119:33
• “revive me in Your ways” – Psalm 119:37
• “I have directed you in the way of wisdom.” – Proverbs 4:11
• “The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the upright.” – Proverbs 10:29
• “this is the way, walk in it” – Isaiah 30:21
• “A voice is calling, ‘Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.’ ” – Isaiah 40:3
  
• “I will go to the great … for they know the way of the Lord” – Jeremiah 5:5
• “that the Lord your God may tell us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do” – Jeremiah 42:3
• “The ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous will walk in them, but transgressors will stumble in them.” – Hosea 14:9
• “Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me.” – Malachi 3:1
• “For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him.” – Matthew 21:32
• “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” – Matthew 3:3
• “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” – Mark 1:3
• “teach the way of God in truth” – Matthew 22:16
• “teach the way of God in truth” – Mark 12:14
• “teach the way of God in truth” – Luke 20:21
• “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” – John 14:6
• “You have made known to me the ways of life.” – Acts 2:28
• “this man had been instructed in the way of the Lord” – Acts 18:25

Scripture verses on the broad way that leads to destruction:

• “You have made for yourselves a molten calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you.” – Deuteronomy 9:16
• “So he forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.” – 2 Kings 21:22
• “He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.” – 2 Chronicles 22:3
• “punishing the wicked by bringing his way on his own head” – 2 Chronicles 6:23
• “When your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, though they had seen My work.  For forty years I loathed that generation, and said they are a people who err in their heart, and they do not know My ways.  Therefore I swore in My anger, truly they shall not enter into My rest.” – Psalm 95:9-11
• “to deliver you from the way of evil” – Proverbs 2:12
• “from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness” – Proverbs 2:13
• “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” – Proverbs 14:12
• “The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord.” – Proverbs 15:9
• “The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.” – Proverbs 15:19
• “Have you not done this to yourself by your forsaking the Lord your God when He led you in the way?” – Jeremiah 2:17
• “they are foolish; for they do not know the way of the Lord” – Jeremiah 5:4
• “Do not learn the way of the nations.” – Jeremiah 10:2
• “you have turned aside from the way” – Malachi 2:8
• “forsaking the right way, they have gone astray” – 2 Peter 2:15
• “For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.” – 2 Peter 2:21
• “Woe to them!  For they have gone the way of Cain …” – Jude 1:11
  
  

Jesus said that the narrow way leads to life.  Later in the first century early Christians became known as, ‘the Way’.

• “so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” – Acts 9:2
• “I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons.” – Acts 22:4
• “But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them …” – Acts 19:9
• “About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way.” – Acts 19:23
• “But this I admit to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect I do serve the God of our fathers …” – Acts 24:14
• “But Felix, having a more exact knowledge about the Way …” – Acts 24:22
  

Other Scripture on ‘The Way’:

• “For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” – Psalm 1:6
• “A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness.  The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.” – Isaiah 35:8
• “Thus says the Lord who makes a way through the sea.” – Isaiah 43:16
• “Thus says the Lord, ‘Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls.’ ” – Jeremiah 6:16
• “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always.” – Jeremiah 32:39
• “they will ask for the way to Zion” – Jeremiah 50:5
• “for in the way you judge, you will be judged” – Matthew 7:2
• “do not go in the way of the Gentiles” – Matthew 10:5
• “Surely you too are one of them; for even the way you talk gives you away.” – Matthew 26:73
• “When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’ ” – Mark 15:39
• “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.” – John 7:46
• “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” – Acts 16:17
• “its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east” – Revelation 16:12
• “God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.” – 1 Corinthians 10:13

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.’ ” – Jeremiah 21:8

“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” – Deuteronomy 30:19

“You know the way where I am going.” – John 14:4

Psalm 86, written by David, is titled: ‘Teach me Thy Way, O Lord’.  The following excerpt actually summarizes all we should be:

“Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.  I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, ad will glorify Your name forever.  For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.” – Psalm 86:11-13

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