48 Bible Verses about God's Plan For Us

For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.

Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD's purposes will prevail.

LORD, my God, You have done great things: marvelous works and your thoughts toward us. There is no one who compares to you! I will try to recite your actions, even though there are too many to number.

But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

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

People do the planning, but the end result is from the LORD.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

Entrust your work to the LORD, and your planning will succeed.

since God had planned something better for us, so that they would not be perfected without us.

And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.

"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.

Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct business, and make money."

Instead you should say, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that."

As for God, his way is upright; the word of God is pure; he is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

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

to whom God wanted to make known the glorious riches of this secret among the gentiles which is the Messiah in you, our glorious hope.

Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.

I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, "My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.'

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

LORD, I know that a person's life is not his to control, nor does a person establish his way in life.

Though they plot evil against you and devise schemes, they will not succeed.

The LORD made it known to me, and so I understood. Then you showed me their malicious deeds.

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

For the LORD of the Heavenly Armies has planned, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

"For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

On the one hand, he was foreknown before the creation of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake.

Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us."

A person plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.

For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."

He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own accomplishments, but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.

Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth.

Our opponents heard that we had learned about them, that God had brought their plans to failure, and that each and every one of us had come to work on the wall.

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

They hand-picked some of the fruit of the land, brought it down to us, and gave a report that said, "The land which the LORD is about to give us is good.'"

Never grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; never condone their plans so they cannot exalt themselves. Interlude

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

When they hand you over, don't worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say, because in that hour what you are to say will be given to you.

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.

who were born, not merely in a genetic sense, nor from lust, nor from man's desire, but from the will of God.

For God's gifts and calling never change.

Because I was confident, I planned to come to you first so you might receive a double blessing.

Then they said, "Come, let's make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest's instruction, the wise man's counsel, and the prophet's message won't be destroyed. So let's verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!"

Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.

He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together.

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number!