Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Proverbs 2:8, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 23:3
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- 1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
- John 10:28
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- Psalms 145:20
The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
- Psalms 66:9
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
- Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
- Psalms 37:28
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Jude 1:24
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
- 1 Peter 1:5
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Deuteronomy 33:3
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
- Psalms 1:6
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Proverbs 8:20
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
More to meet God in Proverbs
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.