Bible Verses About God's Providence
Bible verses about God's Providence
Discover what the Bible says about god's providence.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
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:
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Scripture Passages
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
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 he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
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.
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.
For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
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:
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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.
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.