48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know what I have devised for you sayeth the LORD. My thoughts are to give you peace, and not trouble, which I give you already; and that ye might have hope again.

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

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets.

"I know that thou hast power over all things, and that there is no thought hid unto thee.

A man may well purpose a thing in his heart; but the answer of the tongue cometh of the LORD.

For thus sayeth the LORD: My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.

but we speak the wisdom of God, which is in secret and lieth hid, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and look: what thou devisest, it shall prosper.

God providing a better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

For we know well that all things work for the best unto them that love God, which also are called of purpose.

Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win,"

For that, ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and if we live, let us do this or that."

The way of God is an undefiled way; the word of the LORD also is tried in the fire. He is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. {TYNDALE: The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the LORD fined as gold, and he a shield to all that trust in him.}

And hath opened unto us the mystery of his will according to his pleasure, and purposed

to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

For what man knoweth the things of a man: save the spirit of a man which is within him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.

In the beginning of a thing, I show the end thereof: and I tell before, things that are not yet come to pass. With one word is my device accomplished, and fulfilleth all my pleasure.

But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'

Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

This, O LORD, have I learned of thee, and understand it, for thou hast showed me their imaginations.

But now hath God disposed the members, every one of them in the body, at his own pleasure.

For if the LORD of Hosts determine a thing, who will disannul it? And if he stretch forth his hand, who will hold it in again?

But as far as the heavens are higher than the earth, so far do my ways exceed yours, and my thoughts yours.

which was ordained before the world was made: but was declared in the last times for your sakes.

Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

A man deviseth a way in his heart; but it is the LORD that ordereth his goings.

For by it, the righteousness which cometh of God is opened, from faith to faith. As it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

which saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our deeds, but according to his own purpose and grace, which grace was given us through Christ Jesus before the world was,

The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may be rich in hope through the power of the holy ghost.

the same in himself to have it declared when the time were full come: that all things, both the things which are in heaven, and also the things which are in earth, should be gathered together, even in Christ. That is to say, in him

Nevertheless, when our enemies heard that we had gotten word of it, God brought their counsel to nought, and we turned all again to the wall, every one unto his labour.

according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

and 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 doth give us.'

Let not the ungodly have his desire, O LORD; let not his mischievous imagination prosper, lest they be too proud. Selah.

And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

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

him have ye taken by the hands of unrighteous persons, after he was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slain him whom God hath raised up:

which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor yet of the will of man: but of God.

For verily the gifts and calling of God are such, that it cannot repent him of them.

And in this confidence was I minded the other time to have come unto you, that ye might have had yet one pleasure more,

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.

All things are created by him, and in him, and he is before all things, and in him all things have their being.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: And the weakness of God is stronger than are men.

How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God! O how great is the sum of them!