Bible Verses About Divine Providence

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

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

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

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

For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.

O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.