48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

The preparations 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, says the LORD.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established.

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.

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

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.

And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.

But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall 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.

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

A man's heart plans his way: but the LORD directs his steps.

For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

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

That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone unto his work.

According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God does give us.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

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 calling of God are unchangeable.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that you might have a second benefit;

Then said they, Come, and let us devise plots against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.

And he is before all things, and by him all things are held together.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!