51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know what I have devised for you sayeth the LORD. My thoughts are to give you peace, and not trouble, which I give you already; and that ye might have hope again.

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

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: destroy thou them in thy truth!

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and look: what thou devisest, it shall prosper.

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

him have ye taken by the hands of unrighteous persons, after he was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slain him whom God hath raised up:

A man deviseth a way in his heart; but it is the LORD that ordereth his goings.

A man may well purpose a thing in his heart; but the answer of the tongue cometh of the LORD.

This, O LORD, have I learned of thee, and understand it, for thou hast showed me their imaginations.

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

For what man knoweth the things of a man: save the spirit of a man which is within him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.

I understood of all the works of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attain unto works that are done under the Sun: and though he bestow his labour to seek them out, yet can he not reach unto them: yea, though a wise man would undertake to know them, yet might he not find them.

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

but we speak the wisdom of God, which is in secret and lieth hid, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

The way of God is an undefiled way; the word of the LORD also is tried in the fire. He is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. {TYNDALE: The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the LORD fined as gold, and he a shield to all that trust in him.}

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

the same in himself to have it declared when the time were full come: that all things, both the things which are in heaven, and also the things which are in earth, should be gathered together, even in Christ. That is to say, in him

in whom we are made heirs, and were thereto predestinate according to the purpose of him which worketh all things after the purpose of his own will:

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are but vain.

For that, ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and if we live, let us do this or that."

But the counsel of the LORD endureth, and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

But now hath God disposed the members, every one of them in the body, at his own pleasure.

Let not the ungodly have his desire, O LORD; let not his mischievous imagination prosper, lest they be too proud. Selah.

In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.

There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD.

But as far as the heavens are higher than the earth, so far do my ways exceed yours, and my thoughts yours.

which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.

But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'

The LORD doth all things for his own sake; yea, and when he keepeth the ungodly for the day of wrath.

Therefore amend your ways, and your advisements, and be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God: so shall the LORD repent of the plague, that he had devised against you.

for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

For if the LORD of Hosts determine a thing, who will disannul it? And if he stretch forth his hand, who will hold it in again?

that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men: but in the power of God.

which was ordained before the world was made: but was declared in the last times for your sakes.

But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets.

to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

Commit thy way unto the LORD, set thy hope in him, and he shall bring it to pass.

But the LORD laugheth him to scorn, for he seeth that his day is coming.

and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, which made all things through Jesus Christ,

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

For God hath put in their hearts, to fulfil his will, and to do with one consent, for to give her kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God be fulfilled.

For by it, the righteousness which cometh of God is opened, from faith to faith. As it is written, "The just shall live by faith."