Bible Verses about Planning
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. | Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. |
Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money 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? |
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. | 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. |
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. | The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. |
May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. | May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! |
Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. | Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. |
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. | Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. |
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. | 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 a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. | For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. |
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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 wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness. | Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist. |
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. | So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. |
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. |
All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent. | This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom. |
These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. | These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. |
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. | For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. |
Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence. | 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. |
Bible verse of the day
Who is he, this King of glory?The Lord Almighty—
he is the King of glory.