20 Bible Verses about Plans

In him, I say, for by our union with him we became God's Heritage, having from the first been destined for this in the intention of him who, in all that happens, is carrying out his own fixed purpose;

since God had in view some better thing for us, that they, apart from us, should not attain perfection.

So they and the Councillors met and, after holding a consultation, gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, And told them to say that his disciples came in the night, and stole him while they were asleep;

I want you to know, Brothers, that I have many times intended coming to see you-but until now I have been prevented-that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.

For my hope is to visit you on my journey, and then to be sent on my way by you, after I have first partly satisfied myself by seeing something of you.

With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled-- To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea. As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say 'Yes' and 'No'?

Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.

The Chief Priests, however, plotted to put Lazarus, as well as Jesus, to death, Because it was owing to him that many of the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

After some time the Jews laid a plot to kill Saul, But it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him;

The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape. But the Roman Officer, anxious to save Paul, prevented their carrying out their intention, and ordered that those who could swim should be the first to jump into the sea and try to reach the shore;

Listen to me, you who say 'To-day or to-morrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,' And yet you do not know what your life will be like to-morrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing. You ought, rather, to say 'If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.'