9 Bible Verses about Plans Of Men
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit," you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.
Many plans [are] in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.
The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.
To mortals [belong] the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh [comes] the answer of the tongue.
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top [reaches to] the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages. Who says 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and [it is] paneled with cedar, and he paints [it] with vermilion.
And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and I will gather in there all my grain and possessions.
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,"
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Plans of men » Devices, evil » General references to
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way [that is] not good. He does not reject evil.
He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call [him] "master of mischief."
But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'
Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds [in] his way, about a man making plots.
Plans of men » Devices, evil » Will be defeated
The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.
Yahweh brings to nothing [the] plan of nations; he frustrates [the] intents of peoples.
But when it came {to the attention of} the king, he {gave orders in writing} [that] his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
Woe [to the one who] builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages. Who says 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and [it is] paneled with cedar, and he paints [it] with vermilion.
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The natural man
Many plans [are] in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established.
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The men after the flood
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top [reaches to] the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
Plans of men » Bold » Business man
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,"
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » Bold » Business man
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit,"
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The rich fool
And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and I will gather in there all my grain and possessions.