16 Bible Verses about God's Counsel
Most Relevant Verses
I will bless the Lord who has counseled me;
Indeed, my heart (mind) instructs me in the night.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you [who are willing to learn] with My eye upon you.
For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given;
And the government shall be upon His shoulder,
And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
great [are You] in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to reward or repay each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;
The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The thoughts and plans of His heart through all generations.
Many plans are in a man’s mind,
But it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand (be carried out).
In Him also we have received an inheritance [a destiny—we were claimed by God as His own], having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will,
The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man had consulted the word of God; that is how all Ahithophel’s counsel was regarded by both David and Absalom.
Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.
But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consulting Me,
To take refuge in the stronghold of Pharaoh
And to take shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
And you treated all my counsel as nothing
And would not accept my reprimand,