5 Bible Verses about Divine Purposes

for 'tis said in scripture to Pharaoh, "even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."

but rise upright upon thy feet: for I have appear'd to thee in order to establish you my minister in testifying both what you have seen, and what I shall hereafter show to you,

for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

in pursuance of that dispensation which he made to former ages by Christ Jesus our Lord:

he that lives in sin, imitates the devil; for the devil was a sinner from the beginning. for this purpose the son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.