48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.

There are many plans in a man's heart, but the LORD's counsel will prevail.

Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

But to us God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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

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," says the LORD.

But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,

Commit your deeds to the LORD, and your plans shall succeed.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

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

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

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

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

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

to them God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

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

But they say, 'It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"

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 plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

The LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.

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

For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can 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 was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake,

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

A man's heart plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

who 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 to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, "It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us."

LORD, do not grant the desires of the wicked. Do not let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

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

But when they deliver you up, do not be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

Then they said, "Come, and let us make plans 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 strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

He is before all things, and in 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 to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them.