Commit your works to the Lord, And your plans will be established. | Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. |
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? | 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? |
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‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.’ | 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. |
The mind of a person plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. | The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. |
May He grant you your heart’s desire And fulfill your whole plan! | May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! |
Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed. | Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. |
Many plans are in a person’s heart, But the advice of the Lord will stand. | Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. |
Let me hear Your faithfulness in the morning, For I trust in You; Teach me the way in which I should walk; For to You I lift up my soul. | Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. |
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven. | For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. |
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. | For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. |
Do not weary yourself to gain wealth; Stop dwelling on it. | Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. |
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom. | So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. |
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. | For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
This also comes from the Lord of armies, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great. | This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom. |
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. | These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. |
Do not envy a violent person, And do not choose any of his ways. For the devious are an abomination to the Lord; But He is intimate with the upright. | Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence. |
Certainly the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret plan To His servants the prophets. | For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. |