100 Bible Verses About Destiny
Bible verses about Destiny
Understanding destiny through scripture is a journey of discovering God's loving plan for your life. These verses offer glimpses into a divine tapestry woven with purpose and intention, revealing that you are not a product of chance but a cherished creation with a unique calling. As you explore these passages, allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate your path, guiding you towards the fulfillment of your God-given potential. Embrace the assurance that your steps are ordered by the Lord and that even amidst life's uncertainties, His unwavering love and steadfast faithfulness will lead you to your ultimate destiny in Him.
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Ruth 1:20 (KJV)
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
God's Plan: Discover Your Destiny in Scripture
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
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.
And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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:
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher–shalal–hash–baz.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.
And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth–el.
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The Bible's verses on destiny reveal a profound interplay between divine sovereignty and human agency. From Jeremiah's pre-ordained purpose to Ephesians' call to live out our adoption in Christ, Scripture underscores that God has a plan, yet also invites us into active participation. These verses are not meant to foster fatalism, but rather to inspire hope and purposeful living. Reflect on the implications of these truths: How does knowing God has a plan shape your daily decisions? How can you better align your actions with His revealed will? Ultimately, these passages encourage us to seek God's wisdom, embrace His guidance, and trust that He is working all things together for good, even as we navigate the journey He has uniquely designed for each of us.