- 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.
- Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed. - Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established. - The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps. - Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. - May he grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans! - O Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old, faithful and sure. - For the Lord God does nothing
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets. - The Lord watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. - The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of your hands. - And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
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