51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.

May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!

Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

"I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.

The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.

The Lord gave me knowledge, that I might have understanding. Then he showed me what the people were doing.

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!

"Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,

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

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man's spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

then I discerned all that God has done: No one really comprehends what happens on earth. Despite all human efforts to discover it, no one can ever grasp it. Even if a wise person claimed that he understood, he would not really comprehend it.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

"Yes, God is great -- beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

The one true God acts in a faithful manner; the Lord's promise is reliable; he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ -- the things in heaven and the things on earth.

In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

The Lord knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.

You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."

The Lord's decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.

Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.

O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way! Do not allow their plan to succeed when they attack! (Selah)

who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,'

There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the Lord.

for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

But they just keep saying, 'We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!'"

The Lord works everything for its own ends -- even the wicked for the day of disaster.

But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Commit your future to the Lord! Trust in him, and he will act on your behalf.

The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan -- a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

Then Job answered the Lord:

For God has put into their minds to carry out his purpose by making a decision to give their royal power to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."