'Plan' in the Bible

Then Pharaoh told them, "The LORD will certainly be with you if I let you and your little ones go. I know some evil plan is in your mind.

You are to erect the tent according to the plan for it that was shown you on the mountain.

No Satanic plan against Jacob nor divination against Israel can ever prevail. When the time is right, it is to be asked about Jacob and Israel, "What has God accomplished?'

You answered by saying that this plan is a good thing.

Then, when many evils and troubles will have come upon them, this song will serve as a witness against them, since their descendants won't fail to sing it. I know the plan that they are devising even before I bring them into the land that I promised them by an oath."

Even though this plan seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all of the elders of Israel,

"Now as for you, my son Solomon, get to know the God of your father. Serve him with a sound heart and a devoted soul, because the LORD is searching every heart, every plan and thought. He will be found by you, assuming you are seeking him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you forever.

he developed a plan with his commanders and his elite forces to cut off the water supply from the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him to carry it out.

With his queen seated beside him, the king asked me, "How long will your journey take, and when will you return?" The king thought it was a good idea to send me, so I presented him with a prepared plan.

Then Esther spoke to the king again and fell at his feet. She wept and pleaded with him for mercy to overturn the evil plan devised by Haman the Agagite and his plot against the Jewish people.

"I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible.

As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

They plan to cast him down from his exalted position. They delight in lies; their mouth utters blessings, while their heart is cursing. Interlude

Will destructive national leaders, who plan wicked things through misuse of the Law, be allied with you?

Do not plan to harm your neighbor, when he is living peacefully beside you.

Deceit is at home in the heart of those who plan evil, but those who promote peace rejoice.

Won't those who plot evil go astray? But gracious love and truth are for those who plan what is good.

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

who say: "Let God be quick, let him speed up his work so we may see it! Let it happen! let the plan of the Holy One of Israel draw near, so we may recognize it!'"

But those who are decent plan noble things, and by noble deeds they stand."

With their dreams that they relate to one another, they plan to make my people forget my name just as their ancestors forgot my name by embracing Baal.

The fierce anger of the LORD won't turn back until he has accomplished and established the plan of his heart. In the days to come, you will understand this.

Therefore, hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom, and the strategy that he devised against the inhabitants of Teman. Surely he will drag the little ones of the flock away. Surely their pasture will be desolate because of them.

Flee! Run away quickly! Go to a remote place to stay, residents of Hazor," declares the LORD. "For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has formed a plan and devised a strategy against them.

Therefore, hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the strategy that he devised against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely they'll drag the little ones of the flock away. Surely their pasture will be desolate because of them.

Lift up the battle standard against Babylon's walls. Strengthen the guard; post watchmen. Set men in position for an ambush. For the LORD will both plan and carry out what he has declared against the inhabitants of Babylon.

You are not to wrong the widow, orphans, the foreigner, or the poor, and you are not to plan evil against each other.

So they met with the elders and agreed on a plan to give the soldiers a large amount of money.

But the Pharisees and the experts in the Law rejected God's plan for themselves by refusing to be baptized by John.

he had not voted for their plan and action from the Jewish town of Arimathea; and he was waiting for the kingdom of God.

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

"I'm telling you to keep away from these men for now. Leave them alone, because if this plan or movement is of human origin, it will fail.

because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God.

The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming ashore and escaping,

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

Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate

For the Lord will carry out his plan decisively, bringing it to completion on the earth."

But now God has arranged the parts, every one of them, in the body according to his plan.

when he made known to us the secret of his will. This was according to his plan that he set forth in the Messiah

It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering as part of his plan to glorify many children,

When the time approaches for the seventh angel to blow his trumpet, God's secret plan will be fulfilled, as he had announced to his servants, the prophets."