51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

He will recompense the evil to my foes;
Destroy them in Your faithfulness.

Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

“I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Moreover, the Lord made it known to me and I knew it;
Then You showed me their deeds.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

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

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they would not be made perfect.

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.

As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath.

Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”

The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart from generation to generation.

I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

“Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not promote his evil device, that they not be exalted. Selah.

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

There is no wisdom and no understanding
And no counsel against the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

The Lord has made everything for its own purpose,
Even the wicked for the day of evil.

Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will change His mind about the misfortune which He has pronounced against you.

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees his day is coming.

and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”