Proverbs 19:21

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Summary

Proverbs 19:21

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

Many

Nevertheless

General references

Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 21:30

Bible References

Many

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."

"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."

In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.'

Nevertheless

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

"For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

General references

A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.