20 Bible Verses about Destiny

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.

For the message is a witness to what is decreed; it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. Even if the message is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; for it will certainly come to pass -- it will not arrive late.

The Lord avenges me. O Lord, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend."

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

I, the Lord, probe into people's minds. I examine people's hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

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

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

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him."

Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

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,'

Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the godly! For the one who promotes peace has a future.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened -- the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.