7 Bible Verses about Presumptuous Plans

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

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."

There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.

"'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."