51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the thoughts that I think concerning you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you the end that you wait for.

There are many thoughts in the heart of man; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD shall stand.

He shall reward evil unto my enemies; cut them off in thy truth.

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

I know that thou canst do every thing and that there is no thought hidden from thee.

him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,

The heart of man devises his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

Of man are the preparations of the heart, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

And the LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I experienced it: then thou didst show me their doings.

Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told.

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

And we now know that unto those who love God, all things help them unto good, to those who according to the purpose are called to be saints.

For who among men knows the things of man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no one has known the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

And I have seen regarding all the works of God that man cannot attain to understand the work that is being done under the sun, because though a man labours to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; even though the wise man says that he knows it, yet he shall not be able to attain it.

Come now, ye that say, Today and tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain;

but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages unto our glory,

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,

in him in whom likewise we have obtained an inheritance, having had the way marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will,

Thus hath the Lord GOD said: It shall also come to pass in that day, that words shall rise up in thy heart, and thou shalt conceive an evil thought:

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.

The counsel of the LORD stands for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

O LORD, I know that man is not the lord of his own way: it is not in man that walks to order his steps.

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

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

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:

There is no wisdom nor intelligence nor counsel against the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts.

who are not born of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And they said, This is useless, for we must walk after our own devices, and we must each one do the imagination of his evil heart.

The LORD has made all things by himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings and hear the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD himself will repent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

to do that which thy hand and thy counsel had determined beforehand must be done.

For the LORD of the hosts has purposed, and who shall disannul it? His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

that your faith should not be founded in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

already ordained from before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for love of you,

But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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

Gimel Turn thy way unto the LORD and wait in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the ages has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

For God has put in their hearts to fulfil his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

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