21 Bible Verses about God's Plan

this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder;

We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.

Come now, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we are going to such and such a city; we shall spend a year there trading and making money" ??14 you who know nothing about to-morrow! For what is your life? You are but a mist, which appears for a little and then vanishes.

it is the mysterious Wisdom of God that we discuss, that hidden wisdom which God decreed from all eternity for our glory.

God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ ??11 in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

mustering to carry out what thy hand had traced, thy purpose had decreed.

so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God.

He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;

And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God.

It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity ??10 intending to let the full sweep of the divine wisdom be disclosed now by the church to the angelic Rulers and Authorities in the heavenly sphere,

for God has put it into their hearts to execute his purpose, by having one mind and by conferring their royal power upon the Beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.