- ‘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.’
- Commit your works to the Lord,
And your plans will be established. - Without consultation, plans are frustrated,
But with many counselors they succeed. - Many plans are in a person’s heart,
But the advice of the Lord will stand. - The mind of a person plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps. - May He grant you your heart’s desire
And fulfill your whole plan! - Lord, You are my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have worked wonders,
Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness. - Certainly the Lord God does nothing
Unless He reveals His secret plan
To His servants the prophets. - The Lord watches over strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow,
But He thwarts the way of the wicked. - The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;
Your faithfulness, Lord, is everlasting;
Do not abandon the works of Your hands. - If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
Therefore you have no excuse, you foolish person, everyone of you who passes judgment; for in that matter in which you judge someone else, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. One who is slow to anger has great understanding;
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