Bible Verses About God's Plan

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:

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

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

The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

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:

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 I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

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:

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

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

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

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

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

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.

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

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

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

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

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

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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

But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;