48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

“I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

to whom God willed to 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 who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

Moreover, the Lord made it known to me and I knew it;
Then You showed me their deeds.

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can 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.

For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

“Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For God is with us.”

The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man 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 granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is about to give us.’

“Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not promote his evil device, that they not be exalted. Selah.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

who 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 the calling of God are irrevocable.

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

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

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!