48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

"I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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

Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"--

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

This God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith,as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."

who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, 'It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.'

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

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

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!