- For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
- Without counsel, plans go wrong,
but with many advisers they succeed. - Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established. - The human mind plans the way,
but the Lord directs the steps. - The human mind may devise many plans,
but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established. - 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. - Surely the Lord God does nothing,
without revealing his secret
to his servants the prophets. - The Lord watches over the strangers;
he upholds the orphan and the widow,
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 do not have love, I am nothing.
And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.