48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you -- an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Many are the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

but to us did God reveal them through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

Thou hast known that for all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is any device:

Of man are arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.

For not My thoughts are your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

God! perfect is His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield is He to all those trusting in Him.

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations -- which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, 'My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings.

and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?'

For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

Take counsel, and it is broken, Speak a word, and it doth not stand, Because of Emmanu-El!'

The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, 'And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;

And it cometh to pass, when our enemies have heard that it hath been known to us, and God doth frustrate their counsel, and we turn back, all of us, unto the wall, each unto his work;

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

and they take with their hand of the fruit of the land, and bring down unto us, and bring us back word, and say, Good is the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

Grant not, O Jehovah, the desires of the wicked, His wicked device bring not forth, They are high. Selah.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

'And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

for unrepented of are the gifts and the calling of God;

and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!