48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.

There are many thoughts in the heart of man; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.

Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told.

But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

I know that thou canst do every thing and that there is no thought hidden from thee.

Of man are the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are your ways as my ways, saith the LORD.

but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

And we now know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called to be saints.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;

Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself,

to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery in the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.

O LORD, I know that man is not the lord of his own way: it is not in man that walks to order his steps.

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

And the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I experienced it: then thou didst show me their doings.

But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

For the LORD of the hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts.

already ordained from before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for love of you,

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

The heart of man devises his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

For in him is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages,

And believing, the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace that ye may abound in hope by the virtue of the Holy Spirit.

that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,

And it came to pass when our enemies heard that we had understood it, God brought their counsel to nought, and we returned all of us to the wall, each one unto his work.

according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down unto us and brought us word again and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God gives us.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further his wicked thought lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak, for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,

who are not born of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that ye might have a second grace

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not consider any of his words.

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with thee.

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

For that which is foolish of God is wiser than men, and that which is weak of God is stronger than men.

Therefore, how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!