9 Bible Verses about Plans Of Men
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit." You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes. You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."
The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.
The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. He says, "I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms." He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
Then he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."
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Plans of men » Devices, evil » General references to
Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.
But they just keep saying, 'We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!'"
Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!
Plans of men » Devices, evil » Will be defeated
A good person obtains favor from the Lord, but the Lord condemns a person with wicked schemes.
The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.
But when the matter came to the king's attention, the king gave written orders that Haman's evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.
He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The luxurious king
"'Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. He says, "I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms." He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The natural man
There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The men after the flood
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
Plans of men » Bold » Business man
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » Bold » Business man
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit."
Plans of men » Plans, examples of » The rich fool
Then he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.