81 Bible Verses about God, Purpose Of

Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight: Calling a ravenous beast from the sunrising, from a land afar off a man of my counsel: also I spake, also I will bring it; I formed, also I will do it.

All which Jehovah delighted in he did, in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all the depths.

Jehovah made all to his purpose, and also the unjust for the day of evil.

Jehovah of armies sware, saying, If not as I purposed thus it was, and as I counseled, this shall stand:

O Jehovah, thou my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou didst a wonder; counsels from far off, stability, faithfulness.

So shall be my word which went forth out of my mouth: it shall not turn back to me empty, but doing what I delighted in, and it shall prosper for what I send it

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

The counsel of Jehovah shall stand forever, the purposes of his heart to generation and generation.

I knew that thou wilt be able to do all, and counsel shall not be restrained from thee.

The anger of Jehovah shall not turn back till his doing, and till his setting up the purposes of his heart: in the last of the days ye shall understand in it with understanding.

Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

Behold, he will catch and who shall turn him? and who shall say to him, What wilt thou do?

And he is in one, and who shall turn him back? and his soul desired, and he will do.

Counsel ye, counsel, and it shall be dispersed; speak the word and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

And all the generations of the earth being reckoned as nothing: and doing according to his station in the army of the heavens, and the generations of the earth: and there is none that shall strike upon his hand, and say to him, What didst thou?

For God gave to their hearts to do his purpose, and to do one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast, till the words of God be fulfilled.

And the spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah terrified him.

And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send. forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah.

And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul

And lest I be lifted up by the eminence of Revelation, a thorn in the flesh was given me, a messenger of Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be lifted up.

The heart of man will purpose his ways, and Jehovah will prepare his steps.

From Jehovah man's steps; and how shall man understand his way?

Steams of waters the heart of the king, in the hand of Jehovah: upon all which he shall delight in he will turn it

For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.

So then also in the time now has been a remnant according to the election of grace.

Paul, called, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love: Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,

And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:

And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people.

Wo to Assur the rod of mine anger, and that rod in their hand, my wrath. Against a polluted nation will I send him, and upon a people of my outpouring will I command him to spoil a spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to set them a treading down as the clay of the streets. And he will not thus purpose, and his heart will not reckon thus; for in his heart to destroy and to cut off nations not few.

That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the purpose of times immemorial which he made in Christ Jesus our Lord:

How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! his judgments how unsearchable, and his ways not traced out!

Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

Didst thou not hear from remoteness I made it from days before and I formed it? and now I brought it in, and thou wilt be to set fortified cities for desolate ruins.

Announcing the last part from the beginning, and from of old what was not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my delight:

Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:

In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;

Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,

And yet for this I raised thee up in order to cause thee to see my strength; and for the sake of declaring my name in all the earth.

For the writing says to Pharaoh, That for this same have I raised thee up, so that I might show in thee my power, and so that my name might be announced in all the earth.

For this, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I do not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name which ye profaned among the nations where ye went there. And I consecrated my great name, being profaned among the nations which ye profaned, in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, says the Lord Jehovah, in my being consecrated among you before your eyes.

Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved.

For the Lord Jehovah will not do a word but he will uncover his secret to his servants the prophets.

And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I do?

And what shall David yet add to speak to thee? for thou knewest thy servant, Lord Jehovah. For sake of thy word and according to thy heart thou didst all this greatness to make thy servant know.

But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him. And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.

Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself:

Hidden things to Jehovah our God: and uncovered things to us and to our sons to forever, to do all the words of this law.

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,) Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

And we know that to them loving God, all things work together for good, to them being called according to the setting up.

For I knew the purposes which I purposed concerning you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace, and not for evil, to give to you the last part and expectation.

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

For against the truth were they gathered together against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations and peoples of Israel, To do what thy hands and thy counsel predestinated to be.

But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ: Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

And he said, Retire ye into the city, to a certain person, and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near; with thee do I the pascha with my disciples.

Now has my soul been troubled; and what should I say? O Father, save me from this hour: but for this came I to this hour.

And he comes the third time, and says to them, Sleep the remaining time, and take rest: it is sufficient, the hour has come; behold, the Son of man is delivered into the hands of the sinful.

Then says Jesus to them, My time is not yet present: and your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you: but me it hates, for I testify of it, that its works are evil. Go ye up to this festival: I go not yet up to the festival; for my time has not yet been completed.

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come, that the Son of man should be honoured.

And before the feast of the pascha, Jesus knowing that his hour had come that he should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own in the world, he loved them to the end.

These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee:

Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him:

Therefore let all the house of Israel know certainly, that God made him Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.

And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross. Wherefore God has also exceedingly exalted him, and favored him as a gift with a name above every name: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of the heavenlies, and of terrestrial things, and things under earthread more.
And every tongue should avow that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that he might be the first in all

At these last days spake to us in the Son, whom he set heir of all things, by whom also he made the times; Who being the brightness of glory, and the figure of his foundation, and bearing all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty among the highest ones; Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.

For I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of him having sent me.

And having gone forward a little, he fell upon his face, praying, and saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me: but not as I will, but as thou. And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, lest ye come into temptation: truly the spirit of a ready will, and the flesh weak.read more.
Again of a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, My Father if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, let thy will be.

And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth and prayed that, if it be possible, the hour might pass away from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things possible to thee; turn away this cup from me: but not what I will, but what thou.

Saying, Father, If thou art willing, turn aside this cup from me: but not my will, but thine, be done.

Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.

I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; for I seek not my will, but the will of the Father having sent me.

Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection; Although being a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered;

Then said I, Behold, I am here (in the head of the book it was written of me,) O God, to do thy will.

And this is the will of him having sent me, that every one seeing the Son, and believing in him, should have eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life. For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him.