48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

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

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world 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 know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

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

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, 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, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

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

For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and 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 than your thoughts.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

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

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

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

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

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

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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 doth give us.

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

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, 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:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the 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 benefit;

Then said they, 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 give heed to 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.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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