to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel?
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
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