51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.

Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD's purposes will prevail.

He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

Entrust your work to the LORD, and your planning will succeed.

"I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible.

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

A person plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

People do the planning, but the end result is from the LORD.

The LORD made it known to me, and so I understood. Then you showed me their malicious deeds.

LORD, my God, You have done great things: marvelous works and your thoughts toward us. There is no one who compares to you! I will try to recite your actions, even though there are too many to number.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

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

Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.

I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.

"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.

As for God, his way is upright; the word of God is pure; he is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth.

In the Messiah we were also chosen when we were predestined according to the purpose of the one who does everything that he wills to do,

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "This is what's going to happen on the very day that you begin your invasion: You'll be thinking, making evil plans,

The LORD knows the thoughts of human beings that they are futile.

Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

But the LORD's counsel stands firm forever, the plans in his mind for all generations.

LORD, I know that a person's life is not his to control, nor does a person establish his way in life.

But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.

Never grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; never condone their plans so they cannot exalt themselves. Interlude

I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, "My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.'

No wisdom, insight, or counsel can prevail against the LORD.

"For just 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 merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

The LORD made everything answerable to him, including the wicked at the time of trouble.

Now, change your habits and your deeds and obey the LORD your God, and the LORD will change his mind about the disaster that he told you about.

to carry out everything that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.

For the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has planned, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.

On the one hand, he was foreknown before the creation of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake.

But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.

Commit your way to the LORD; Trust him, and he will act.

But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

and help everyone see how this secret that has been at work was hidden for ages by God, who created all things.

Job replied to the LORD:

for God has placed within them a desire to carry out his purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast until God's words are fulfilled.

For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."