9 Bible Verses about Plans Of Men

Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

The one who plots evil
will be called a schemer.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him;
do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way,
by the man who carries out evil plans.

a heart that plots wicked schemes,
feet eager to run to evil,

The good person obtains favor from the Lord,
but He condemns a man who schemes.

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upper rooms through injustice, who makes his fellow man serve without pay and will not give him his wages, who says: I will build myself a massive palace, with spacious upper rooms. He will cut windows in it, and it will be paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
but the Lord’s decree will prevail.

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

I will do this,’ he said. ‘I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones and store all my grain and my goods there.