Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and a
There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything b
But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human or
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples o
In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel again
Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appo
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one
As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to pres
“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn
‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king
In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavi
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews
and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.