81 Bible Verses about Plans

Now say to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem, This is what Jehovah says: 'I am going to prepare a disaster and make a plot against you. Turn from your evil ways, change your lives, and do good.'

If you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those that are left will be as troublesome as splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will fight against you. If you do not drive them out, I will destroy you, as I planned to destroy them.

Have you not heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble. The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

He performs what is appointed for me. He is mindful of many such matters. Therefore, I would be dismayed at his presence. I stand in awe of him. God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has dismayed (shocked) me.

O Jehovah, you are my God. I will exalt you and I will praise your name! You have done wonderful things with plans formed of old. You are faithful and true. You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it! And now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone. Their people are drained of power. They are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, parched before it grows.

Perhaps the people will listen and give up their evil ways. If they do I will change my mind about the destruction I plan to bring on them for all their wicked deeds.

Jehovah accomplished his purpose. He accomplished what he said he would with the orders he gave in the days that are past. He tore down and shows no compassion. He causes your enemies to rejoice. He lifted up the horn (power) of your adversaries.

Therefore Jehovah says: Behold, against this family I plan bad things, from which you will not remove the burden. You will not be able to show pride for it is an evil time.

Jehovah of Hosts has sworn an oath: What I have intended (devised) will happen. What I have determined to do will be done. In my land of Israel I will trample them on my mountains. I will free my people from the Assyrian yoke and from the burdens they have had to bear. This is my purpose (plan) (advise) for the world, and my arm (extended power) is stretched out to punish the nations.read more.
Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.

Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what Jehovah of Hosts has purposed (planned) (resolved) against Egypt.

Who planned such a thing against Tyre, the city that produced kings? Its merchants are princes. Its traders are among the honored people of the world. Jehovah of Hosts planned this in order to dishonor all arrogant people and to humiliate all the honored people of the world.

Hear that which I have determined against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

Listen to what Jehovah is going to do against Babylon and the things he intends to do to the land of the Babylonians. He will surely drag away the little ones of the flock. He will surely destroy the pasture because of the Babylonians.

Many nations are assembled against you! They say: 'Let her be defiled, and let us gloat over it.' They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion! I will make your horn like iron and I will make your hoofs like brass. You will pulverize many nations into pieces. I will devote their profit and wealth to Jehovah the Lord of the whole earth.

We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.

O Jehovah my God, Many are the wonders that you have done and your thoughts toward us. None can compare with you. If I would declare and teach about them, they would be too numerous to report.

God provided something better for us that they might not be made perfect without us.

Erect the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain. Build a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design of cherubim into fine linen yarn. Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver.read more.
Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies. Place the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the holy of holies. Set the table outside the veil. Place the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. Place the table on the north side. Make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver. Make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold. Cast five sockets of bronze for them.

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the entrance hall and the Temple, the storerooms, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the throne of mercy. He gave him plans for the courtyards of Jehovah's Temple and for all the rooms around it. These rooms served as treasuries for God's Temple and the gifts dedicated to God.

Son of man, describe this Temple to the people of Israel. Then they will be ashamed because of their sins. Let them study the plans. Suppose they are ashamed of everything that they have done. Then show them the design of the Temple, its arrangements, its exits and entrances-its entire design. Tell them about all its rules and regulations. Then write these things down for them so that they can remember its design and follow all its rules.

The Lord Jehovah will do nothing without revealing his secrets to his servants the prophets.

Erect the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain.

Hear that which I have determined against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified. When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake. The cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba.

I know that you can do all things and no plan of yours can be thwarted.

The counsel of Jehovah and the plans of his heart stand from generation to generation, forever.

Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope! You say: Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.

I summon a bird of prey from the east. I summon a man to fulfill my purpose from a far off land. What I have said I will bring about. What I have determined (purposed) I will do.

Maybe the nation of Judah will hear about all the disasters that I devise to bring on them, and they will turn from their wicked ways. Then I will forgive their wickedness and their sins.

Jehovah spoke his word to me. Jehovah asked: Nation of Israel, can I do with you as this potter does with clay? Nation of Israel, You are in my hands like the clay in the potter's hands. At one time I may threaten to tear up, break down, and destroy a nation or a kingdom.read more.
However if the nation that I threatened turns away from doing wrong. Then I will change my plans about the disaster I planned to do to it. At another time I may promise to build and plant a nation or a kingdom. If that nation does what I consider evil and does not obey me I will change my mind about the good that I promised to do to it.

God saw their works! That they turned from their evil way. God turned back from the deed that he said he would do to them. He did not do it.

They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves: Let us set traps! No one can see us. They devise evil plans and say: We will commit the perfect crime. The thoughts and the heart of man are deep.

Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David. I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened! All his men will run away. I will kill only the king. Then I will bring back all his men to you. It will be like a bride returning to her husband. Kill one man and the rest of the people return safely.read more.
This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders.

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglathpileser king of Assyria. There he saw the altar at Damascus. King Ahaz sent a drawing of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure to Urijah the priest. Urijah made an altar from the drawing King Ahaz sent from Damascus. He had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

They plan evil things in their hearts. They start conflicts (fights) (wars) every day.

Do they not err that devise evil? Those who devise good will find loving kindness and truth.

If you foolishly exalted yourself, or if you thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.

Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.

But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning comes they do it because they are able to (it is in the power of their hands).

They took counsel with the elders. Then they bribed the soldiers. The soldiers were instructed to say: His disciples came at night and stole him while we slept.

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

King David stood there and said: Listen to me relatives (brothers and sisters) and subjects. I had my heart set on building the Temple where the Ark of Jehovah's Covenant could be placed. This Temple will be a stool for our God's feet, and I have made preparations to build it.

They put the advice of oppressed people to shame because Jehovah is their protection.

The ideas of the diligent tend only to abundance. But of the one who is hasty it leads to poverty.

But the noble man devises noble plans. He stands firm for what is honorable.

I want you to know, brothers, that I was often determined to come to you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you as well as the rest of the nations.

When I take my journey to Spain, I will come to you. I trust to see you in my journey, and to be escorted on my way by you, after I have been satisfied with your company.

In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit. To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea. When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no?

Without counsel plans fail. But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

The people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and tried to make them afraid to go on building. They hired men to work against them and kept them from accomplishing their plans during the reign of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.

Good counsel makes for good plans. Seek good counsel if you wage war.

When the officers told Saul what David had said,

Then David said: Jehovah God of Israel, I have actually heard that Saul is going to come to Keilah and destroy the city on account of me.

Protect me from the hands of wicked people, O Jehovah. Keep me safe from violent people. They try to trip me.

Run and hide, you people of the desert who live in villages! Nebuchadnezzar has big plans for you.

Then they said: Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise man, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike him with our tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.

The Pharisees took counsel how they might trap him in his talk.

The chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death. This is because by reason of Lazarus many of the Jews believed in Jesus.

After many days the Jews took counsel to kill him. Saul learned about their plot against him. They watched the gates day and night to kill him.

The soldiers' planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any from swimming away and escaping. The centurion desired to save Paul so he kept them from doing what they planned. He commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard, and get to the land first.

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit. You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. You should say, If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.

Jehovah nullifies the counsel of the nations. He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

He will give you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans.

O Jehovah, do not give wicked people what they want. Do not let their evil plans succeed, or they will become arrogant.

His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).

Preparations of the heart and the answer of the tongue, is from Jehovah. All the ways of a man are pure (clean) in his own eyes. But Jehovah weighs the motives. Commit your works to Jehovah and your thoughts will be firmly established.

Many intentions are in men's hearts. Only counsel from Jehovah will stand.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah!

Make plans for battle, but they will never succeed. Give orders, but they will not be carried out, because God is with us!

The Egyptians will become discouraged. I will bring their plans to nothing. They will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the earth.