24 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God.

it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory.

God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design

It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.

As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.

He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ ??11 in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment,

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.

Relying on this I meant to visit you first, to let you have a double delight;

he is prior to all, and all coheres in him.

For the 'foolishness' of God is wiser than men, and the 'weakness' of God is stronger than men.