100 Bible Verses about Gods Plan

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3,335 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 2,048 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 1,809 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 1,265 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah 29:11-14 ESV / 1,241 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 1,190 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 1,165 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,016 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Job 42:2 ESV / 888 helpful votes

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 858 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 820 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 805 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 794 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 775 helpful votes

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 33:11 ESV / 725 helpful votes

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 717 helpful votes

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 696 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 688 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 677 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 3:16 ESV / 617 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 601 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 596 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 546 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 536 helpful votes

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Revelation 21:1-7 ESV / 534 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 498 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 494 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Psalm 48:14 ESV / 494 helpful votes

That this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 487 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 486 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

John 14:26 ESV / 480 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 470 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 464 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Isaiah 55:9 ESV / 438 helpful votes

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Acts 2:23 ESV / 435 helpful votes

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 427 helpful votes

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Romans 11:36 ESV / 426 helpful votes

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 423 helpful votes

And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 421 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 8:28-29 ESV / 415 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 415 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 409 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 404 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

James 1:5 ESV / 401 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Luke 14:28 ESV / 400 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 400 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 399 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ...

Isaiah 55:10-11 ESV / 397 helpful votes

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Daniel 4:17 ESV / 395 helpful votes

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

Acts 13:48 ESV / 394 helpful votes

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 392 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Hebrews 12:5-11 ESV / 389 helpful votes

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? ...

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 387 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

1 Corinthians 13:9 ESV / 385 helpful votes

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 383 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 381 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 373 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 14:26-27 ESV / 369 helpful votes

This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 367 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 365 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 2:23 ESV / 358 helpful votes

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 357 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 357 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 355 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 353 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 350 helpful votes

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 347 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 341 helpful votes

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Romans 8:29 ESV / 340 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 334 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 1:12 ESV / 334 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Galatians 1:4 ESV / 330 helpful votes

Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 327 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 309 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

John 10:10 ESV / 308 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 302 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

John 16:13 ESV / 301 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 297 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 296 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Psalm 121:3 ESV / 295 helpful votes

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 293 helpful votes

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 286 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Hebrews 6:17 ESV / 285 helpful votes

So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Psalm 40:5 ESV / 280 helpful votes

You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

John 14:27 ESV / 279 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 277 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Romans 10:13 ESV / 271 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 269 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 268 helpful votes

He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

1 John 5:11-12 ESV / 262 helpful votes

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Titus 3:5-7 ESV / 262 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Proverbs 23:18 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 257 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 249 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Matthew 5:17 ESV / 248 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 245 helpful votes

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Proverbs 16:1 ESV / 241 helpful votes

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 240 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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