What Does the Bible Say About Divine Plan?

John 16:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

1 John 3:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.

John 6:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Peter 1:18-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Hebrews 9:24-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

John 1:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Matthew 24:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Philippians 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

That by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 3:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Acts 11:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” But Peter began and explained it to them in order: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. ...

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Acts 9:1-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ...

Acts 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Isaiah 65:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Ezra 2:68 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.

Numbers 10:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp. And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out. ...

1 Timothy 2:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 1:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Acts 24:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Acts 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.

Matthew 25:33-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

Job 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Genesis 22:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;

38 Bible Verses about Divine Plan

John 16:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:18-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:24-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 11:1-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 9:1-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 4:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 65:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 2:68 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 10:1-36 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 24:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:33-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 22:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 19:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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