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Summary
- Walking is the Bible’s main word for how a life is lived. It implies two things no other verb does: it takes time, and it goes somewhere.
- Enoch and Noah “walked with God” (Genesis 5:24; 6:9), and Abram at ninety-nine was told to “walk before me faithfully” (Genesis 17:1).
- Micah 6:8 makes walking humbly one of three summary requirements — a gait kept up, not an act performed once.
- The New Testament keeps the image: 2 Corinthians 5:7 uses a verb meaning to walk about, and Galatians 5:25 asks for keeping step, which is about pace rather than direction.
- Luke 24 ends on a seven-mile walk where the company was there the whole way and the recognition came only at the table.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 5:24; 6:9; 17:1; 40:8; Micah 6:8; 2 Corinthians 5:7; 1 John 1:7; Galatians 5:25; Isaiah 40:31; Luke 24:13-35; Daniel 2:27-28). The Greek peripateo behind “we live by faith” is given as in standard lexicons.
