Walk Worthily

Psalm 56:13

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Proverbs 2:20 (KJV)

Walk, in the Way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Isaiah 30:21a (ESV)

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it.” 

Ephesians 4:1-2  (HCSB)  

Walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love.

Philippians 1:27

Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.

Colossians 1:9-10

(May) God fill you with the knowledge of his will though all spiritual wisdom and understanding...so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way; bearing fruit in every good work...

1 Thessalonians 2:12 (KJV)

Walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. 

2 Thessalonians 1:11

(May) God count you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith. 

Does the life you are living reflect the cost of your redemption?

Is what you're living for worth Jesus Christ dying for?

Is your life a confirmation of the faith and doctrine that you profess?

Thomas Watson  

The Ten Commandments

O infinite, astonishing mercy, that God should take dust and ashes into so near a bond of love as to be our God! Let us live as those who have God as their own, and walk in holy lives, that others may see there is something of God in us.

The Godly Man’s Picture "The Godly Man Walks With God"

https://www.fivesolas.com/Watson/godlwlk.htm

Let us test whether we have this characteristic of the godly: Do we walk with God? That may be known:

1. By the way we walk in. It is a private, secluded way, in which only some few holy ones walk. Therefore it is called a pathway to distinguish it from the common road: in the pathway thereof is no death (Prov. 12:28)

2. By a walk in the fear of God: Enoch walked with God (Gen 5:22). The Chaldean version renders it, he walked in the fear of the Lord. The godly are fearful of that which may displease God: how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? (Gen 39:9). 

Body of Practical Divinity on Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to Your truth!”

Let us lead Scripture lives. Oh, that the Bible might be seen to be printed in our lives! Obedience is an excellent way of commenting upon the Bible. Let the Word be the sun-dial by which you set your life.

Thomas Manton  Exposition Upon The Epistle of Jude, Verse 16

God’s children most commonly are forced to walk in a counter motion to the times.

Thomas Gouge  "Questions Concerning Prayer"

Labor to live suitably to thy prayers. It is to no purpose to begin the day with God, and to keep the devil company all the day after; to be a saint in the morning, and a swine all the day following. Having prayed for holiness of life, labor to live holily; having prayed for humility, labor to walk humbly; having prayed for sobriety and temperance, labor to live soberly and temperately. Having prayed in the Spirit, and to walk in the flesh, is a contradiction.

John Gill

By the Spirit of God; (we) are called out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberty, out of the world, and from the company and conversation of the men of it, into the fellowship of Christ, and his people, to the participation of the grace of Christ here, and to his kingdom and glory hereafter. Now to walk worthy of it, or suitable to it, is to walk as children of the light; to walk in the liberty wherewith Christ and his Spirit make (us) free; to walk by faith on Christ; and to walk in the ways of God, with Christ, the mark, in (our) view; and to walk on constantly, to go forwards and hold out unto the end: for this walking, though it refers to a holy life and conversation, a series of good works, yet it does not suppose that these merit calling; rather the contrary, since these follow upon it; and that is used as an argument to excite unto them: but the phrase is expressive of a fitness, suitableness, and (conformity)of a walk to such rich grace, and so high an honour conferred on saints.

Christian character Thomas Newman in Rowland Hill's Village Dialogues

"...everyman who goes to heaven must have the name of new-man. We must not expect to enter there unless we are created anew in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10)

Albert Barnes

Such being your exalted privileges; since God has done so much for you; since he has revealed for you such a glorious system; since he has bestowed on you the honour of calling you into his kingdom, and making you partakers of his mercy, I entreat you to live in accordance with these elevated privileges, and to show your sense of his goodness by devoting your all to his service.

Octavius Winslow, Daily Walking With God, Morning Thoughts July 18

Do not be satisfied with just barely knowing that you have crossed the line that separates the regenerate from the unregenerate–death from life. Remain not where you are: go forward. Do not be content with a low standard. Compare not your church with other churches, nor yourself with other Christians; nor measure yourself by yourself. But fix your eye upon Christ; copy His example, imbibe His mind, and place yourself under the government of His Spirit. Strive to go forward! Endeavor to be always sowing to the Spirit. Be satisfied with the Lord's disposal of you. Study the divine art of contentment. Be convinced that what the Lord ordains is best. Covet but little of earthly good.

G. Campbell Morgan "Saints" on Ephesians 1:1 & 5:3 "To the saints... As becometh saints." 

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F.B. Meyer

Act worthily of the love which summoned you, and of the goal to which you have been called. Stand still and ask yourself before you speak, or act, or decide--Is this worthy of that great ideal which God has conceived for me, when He called me from the rest of men to be his priest, his saint, his son?

A.W. Tozer  

1 Timothy 4:12 “Be thou an example…in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”

The most effective argument for Christianity is the good lives of those who profess it. 

        The Set of the Sail 

The first step for any Christian who is seeking spiritual power is to accept his unique position as a son of heaven temporarily detained on the earth, and to begin to live as becometh a saint. The sharp line of demarcation between him and the world will appear at once--and the world will never quite forgive him. And the sons of earth will make him pay well for separation, but it is a price he will gladly pay for the privilege of walking in fruitfulness and power.

        Renewed Day by Day 

The divine procedure is to go into the world of fallen men, preach to them the necessity to repent and become disciples of Christ, and after making disciples, to teach them “the ethics of Jesus,” which Christ called “all things which I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28:20) The ethics of Jesus cannot be obeyed or even understood until the life of God has come to the heart of a man or woman in the miracle of the new birth. The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who walk in the Spirit. 

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones  Study in Ephesians on Ephesians 4:1 "Live a life worthy of the calling you have received."

The first idea is that of equal weight or balancing. Think of two things which are of the same weight, so that when you put them on opposite sides of the scale there is no tilting to one side or the other, but they balance perfectly. That is the original derivation of the word translated here by ‘worthy’. So what the Apostle is saying is that he is beseeching them and exhorting them always to give equal weight in their lives to doctrine and practice. They must not put all the weight on doctrine and none on practice; nor all the weight on practice and just a little, if any at all, on doctrine. To do so produces imbalance and lopsidedness. The Ephesians must take great pains to see that the scales are perfectly balanced. However packed your head may be with knowledge, if you are failing in your life you will be a hindrance to the spreading of the Kingdom, you will bring the cause of God and His Christ into disrepute. But it is equally true to say that if your conception of the Christian life is that it means no more than that you live a good life, that you should be moral, and that doctrine is of no importance, again you will be a hindrance to the cause. There must be true balance, we must be ‘worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called’.

The Bible frequently uses this argument. It is found for instance in Hebrews 6:9-11:

But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end.

The author of the Epistle commends them for having shown marvellous diligence on the practical side of their lives, but then urges them to show the same diligence in the matter of grasping the doctrines of the faith and especially that of the full assurance of hope to the end. Those Hebrew Christians were in trouble because they had failed to maintain the balance between doctrine and practice; they were not being ‘worthy’ of their calling.

The other idea contained in this word is of something that is ‘becoming’. It is interesting to observe how the translators of the King James Version translated the same word in the Greek original in different ways at different points. They might very well have translated as follows, ‘I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk in a manner which is “becoming of” the calling wherewith you are called’, because when they translate the same Apostle, in Philippians 1:27, where he again writes about himself in prison and his suffering they have, 'Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ'. It is exactly the same idea. The idea conveyed is of matching, it is of putting on a piece of clothing that is consistent with another, something that is suited to and matches something else.