'Plan' in the Bible

And the Lord said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan that you were shown on the mountain.

After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, "Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you."

Muster an army like the one you lost, with the same number of horses and chariots. Then we will fight them in the plains; we will certainly overpower them." He approved their plan and did as they advised.

Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

So Ezra got up and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath to carry out this plan. And they all took a solemn oath.

Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated! May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.

All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, "Who will see them?"

who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

O Lord, shelter me from the power of the wicked! Protect me from violent men, who plan to knock me over.

O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way! Do not allow their plan to succeed when they attack! (Selah)

To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person.

Do not those who devise evil go astray? But those who plan good exhibit faithful covenant love.

They say, "Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!"

This is the plan I have devised for the whole earth; my hand is ready to strike all the nations."

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

"Bring a plan, make a decision! Provide some shade in the middle of the day! Hide the fugitives! Do not betray the one who tries to escape!

Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,'

who summons an eagle from the east, from a distant land, one who carries out my plan. Yes, I have decreed, yes, I will bring it to pass; I have formulated a plan, yes, I will carry it out.

You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. You see everything people do. You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do.

"I, the Lord, do these things. I, the Lord, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the Lord. I say to you,

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the Lord will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

"'What you plan will never happen. You say, "We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone."

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath -- these are all things that I hate,' says the Lord."

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

Early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests with the elders and the experts in the law and the whole Sanhedrin tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

So in this case I say to you, stay away from these men and leave them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking originates with people, it will come to nothing,

Now the soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

But the centurion, wanting to save Paul's life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

and to enlighten everyone about God's secret plan -- a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.