Two Ways Contrasted

[5] Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. [6] For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. [7] Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. [8] For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

• Gates
• Way

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

• Jehoshaphat
• Children

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

• Righteous

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

• Day

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.