5 Bible Verses about Divine Purposes

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I may show in you my power, and that my name may be published in all the earth.

But arise, and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness of the things which you have seen, and of those in which I will appear to you,

by making known to us the mystery of his will according to his good purpose which he had before established in himself,

according to the arrangement of the ages, which he established by Christ Jesus our Lord,

He that works sin is of the devil, for the devil sins from the beginning: for this purpose was the son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.