51 Bible Verses about God's Plan

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.

He will requite the evil to my enemies. Destroy thou them in thy truth.

Commit thy works to LORD, and thy purposes shall be established.

I know that thou can do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be restrained.

this man, having been designated (by the purpose and foreknowledge of God) a man delivered up, ye, having taken by lawless hands, killed, having crucified,

A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

And LORD gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then thou showed me their doings.

Many, O LORD my God, are the wonderful works which thou have done, and thy thoughts which are toward us. They cannot be set in order to thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says LORD.

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

For what man knows the things of the man, except the spirit of the man in him? And so nobody knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he

Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain--

But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

God having foreseen something superior concerning us, so that without us they would not be made fully perfect.

Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For they intended evil against thee. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth,

in him in whom also we obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the deliberation of his will.

Thus says lord LORD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shall devise an evil plan.

LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.

The counsel of LORD stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked man. Do not further his evil device. They exalt themselves. Selah.

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against LORD.

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

who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

But they say, It is in vain. For we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

LORD has made everything for its own end, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of LORD your God, and LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

to do as many things as thy hand and thy purpose predetermined to happen.

For LORD of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

so that your faith would not be in wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

who was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you.

But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

To whom God wanted to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

LORD will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.

Then Job answered LORD, and said,

For God gave in their hearts to do his will. Even to do one will, and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God would be ended.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.