Straight

Picture a highway cut through a desert, built for God to travel. “Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God,” Isaiah says, promising that valleys will rise and the crooked will be made straight (Isaiah 40:3-4). Matthew applies the same voice to John the Baptist, calling people to “make his paths straight” (Matthew 3:3). Hebrews brings it down to daily life: “make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed” (Hebrews 12:13).

4 verses

Isaiah

Isaiah 40:3

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Matthew

Matthew 3:3

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Hebrews

Hebrews 12:13

And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.