For I know full well the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for your misfortune, plans that will offer you a future filled with hope. | ‘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.’ |
Plans miscarry when counsel is lacking, but they succeed when there are many counselors. | Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many counselors they succeed. |
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Entrust everything that you do to the Lord, and your plans will turn out to be successful. | Commit your works to the Lord, And your plans will be established. |
Many are the plans in a human mind, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will prevail. | Many plans are in a person’s heart, But the advice of the Lord will stand. |
May he give you your heart’s desire and grant you success in all your plans. | May He grant you your heart’s desire And fulfill your whole plan! |
A man may plan his own course, but the Lord makes his steps secure. | The mind of a person plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps. |
O Lord, you are my God. I will exalt you and praise your name, for you have accomplished wonderful things, formulated in ages past, faithful and sure. | 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. |
Indeed, the Lord God does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets. | Certainly the Lord God does nothing Unless He reveals His secret plan To His servants the prophets. |
The Lord watches over the stranger and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he blocks the way of the wicked. | The Lord watches over strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked. |
The Lord will fulfill his plan for me. Your kindness, O Lord, endures forever; do not forsake the work of your hands. | 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 the ability to understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all the faith necessary to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. | 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. |