21 Bible Verses about God's Plan

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.

For what human being can understand a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one understands the thoughts of God but the spirit of God.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a town, to stay a year and go into business and make money,"

But it is a mysterious divine wisdom that we impart, hitherto kept secret, and destined by God before the world began for our glory.

for God had resolved upon something still better for us, that they might not reach the fulfilment of their hopes except with us.

and in arranging, when the time should have fully come, that everything in heaven and on earth should be unified in Christ??11 the Christ through whom it is our lot to have been predestined by the design of him who in everything carries out the purpose of his will,

This, instead of saying, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live to do this or that."

As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be.

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen.

so that your faith might rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages,

For God revealed them to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God himself.

to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.

and making clear how the secret purpose is to be worked out which has been hidden away for ages in God the creator of all things,

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by having a common purpose and giving up their authority to the animal until God's decrees are carried out.

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."