51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

He shall reward evil unto my enemies: cut them off in your truth.

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

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

A man's heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps.

The preparations of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

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

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Come now, you that say, Today or 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 ordained before the world 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 proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.

That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:

Thus says the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought:

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

For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.

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

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

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

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; 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 understanding 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 than your thoughts.

Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.

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

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent concerning the evil that he has pronounced against you.

To do whatsoever your hand and your counsel determined before to be done.

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

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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

Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also 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 plan of the mystery, which from the beginning of 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 fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

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