8 Bible Verses about Divine Purposes
Most Relevant Verses
For the Lord, who created the heavens (He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this,
“I am the Lord, and there is no one else.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “I raised you up for this very purpose, to display My power in [dealing with] you, and so that My name would be proclaimed in all the earth.”
For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
The land trembles and writhes [in pain and sorrow],
For the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon
A desolation without inhabitants.
Get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you [to serve] as a minister and as a witness [to testify, with authority,] not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you,
He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ,
This is in accordance with [the terms of] the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
Bible Theasaurus
- Purposes (100 instances)
From Thematic Bible
divine Purposes » Sure of fulfilment
The land trembles and writhes [in pain and sorrow],
For the purposes of the Lord against Babylon stand,
To make the land of Babylon
A desolation without inhabitants.
divine Purposes » Eternal in Christ
This is in accordance with [the terms of] the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,
divine Purposes » Revealed in the gospel
He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ,
divine Purposes » Irresistible
For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
divine Purposes » Seen in his choice of instruments
divine Purposes » Involves the overthrow of satan
The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.