'Plan' in the Bible

The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you have been shown on the mountain.

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected 12 men from among you, one man for each tribe.

So I plan to build a temple for the name of Yahweh my God, according to what the Lord promised my father David: ‘I will put your son on your throne in your place, and he will build the temple for My name.’

David concluded, “By the Lord’s hand on me, He enabled me to understand everything in writing, all the details of the plan.”

Now you plan to reduce the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, to slavery. Are you not also guilty before Yahweh your God?

They said to them, “You must not bring the captives here, for you plan to bring guilt on us from the Lord to add to our sins and our guilt. For we have much guilt, and burning anger is on Israel.”

In it was written:It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king

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.

“Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart;I know that this was Your hidden plan:

I know that You can do anythingand no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

Though they intend to harm youand devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

Let those who seek to kill mebe disgraced and humiliated;let those who plan to harm mebe turned back and ashamed.

All who hate me whisper together about me;they plan to harm me.

They only plan to bring him downfrom his high position.They take pleasure in lying;they bless with their mouths,but they curse inwardly.Selah

They encourage each other in an evil plan;they talk about hiding traps and say,“Who will see them?”

They devise crimes and say,“We have perfected a secret plan.”The inner man and the heart are mysterious.

who plan evil in their hearts.They stir up wars all day long.

Protect me, Lord,from the clutches of the wicked.Keep me safe from violent menwho plan to make me stumble.

Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,for he trusts you and lives near you.

Don’t those who plan evil go astray?But those who plan good find loyalty and faithfulness.

for their hearts plan violence,and their words stir up trouble.

to those who say:“Let Him hurry up and do His work quicklyso that we can see it!Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take placeso that we can know it!”

Devise a plan; it will fail.Make a prediction; it will not happen.For God is with us.

This is the plan preparedfor the whole earth,and this is the hand stretched outagainst all the nations.

Woe to the rebellious children!This is the Lord’s declaration.They carry out a plan, but not Mine;they make an alliance,but against My will,piling sin on top of sin.

I declare the end from the beginning,and from long ago what is not yet done,saying: My plan will take place,and I will do all My will.

Perhaps they will listen and return—each from his evil way of life—so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

There is no longer praise for Moab;they plan harm against her in Heshbon:Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.Also, Madmen, you will be silenced;the sword will pursue you.

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low,residents of Hazor—this is the Lord’s declaration—for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylonhas drawn up a plan against you;he has devised a strategy against you.

Sharpen the arrows!Fill the quivers!The Lord has put it into the mindof the kings of the Medesbecause His plan is aimed at Babylonto destroy her,for it is the Lord’s vengeance,vengeance for His temple.

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plan evil and give wicked advice in this city.

“This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

But they do not know the Lord’s intentionsor understand His plan,that He has gathered themlike sheaves to the threshing floor.

After the priests had assembled with the elders and agreed on a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

But since the Pharisees and experts in the law had not been baptized by him, they rejected the plan of God for themselves.)

who had not agreed with their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Judean town, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place.

And now, I tell you, stay away from these men and leave them alone. For if this plan or this work is of men, it will be overthrown;

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

for I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.

But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously?

I beg you that when I am present I will not need to be bold with the confidence by which I plan to challenge certain people who think we are behaving in an unspiritual way.

or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.

but in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, when he will blow his trumpet, then God’s hidden plan will be completed, as He announced to His servants the prophets.”

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom to the beast until God’s words are accomplished.