Proverbs 19:21

World English Bible (2000)

There are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

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  • Prov 16:1 : 1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
  • Isa 14:24 : 24 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
  • Isa 14:26-27 : 26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
  • Isa 46:10 : 10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
  • Acts 5:38-39 : 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
  • Gen 37:19-20 : 19 They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes. 20 Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  • Gen 45:4-8 : 4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Dan 11:24-25 : 24 In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time. 25 He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.
  • Matt 26:4-5 : 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him. 5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 saying, "Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: 'After three days I will rise again.' 64 Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 "For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together 28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 "Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel." 7 This is what the Lord Yahweh says: "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen."
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 16:9
    79%

    9 A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

  • Ps 33:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

    11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

  • Prov 19:20
    77%

    20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

  • Prov 15:22
    76%

    22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

  • Prov 21:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

    2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

  • Prov 21:29-31
    3 verses
    76%

    29 A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

    30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

    31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

  • Prov 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

    2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

    3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

  • Prov 20:5
    75%

    5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

  • Prov 29:26
    74%

    26 Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from Yahweh.

  • Prov 20:18
    73%

    18 Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

  • Prov 19:22
    73%

    22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

  • Prov 5:21
    73%

    21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

  • Prov 19:3
    72%

    3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 20:24
    71%

    24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 12:20
    71%

    20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

  • Prov 24:6
    71%

    6 for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

  • Prov 12:5
    70%

    5 The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

  • Prov 14:12
    70%

    12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Prov 12:2
    70%

    2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

  • Prov 12:15
    70%

    15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

  • Prov 23:19
    70%

    19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Nah 1:11
    70%

    11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

  • Prov 16:33
    70%

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

  • Prov 21:22
    70%

    22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.

  • Prov 3:5
    70%

    5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.

  • Jer 18:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now everyone from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

    12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.

  • Isa 28:29
    70%

    29 This also comes forth from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

  • Jer 10:23
    69%

    23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

  • Jer 17:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

    10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

  • Prov 17:3
    69%

    3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

  • Ps 94:11
    69%

    11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

  • Prov 11:14
    69%

    14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

  • Job 22:18
    69%

    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Prov 16:25
    69%

    25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

  • Jer 32:19
    69%

    19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  • Job 23:13
    69%

    13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

  • Ps 37:23
    69%

    23 A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

  • Isa 8:10
    68%

    10 Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us."

  • Prov 28:26
    68%

    26 One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

  • Job 18:7
    68%

    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Jer 17:5
    68%

    5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

  • 1 Cor 3:20
    68%

    20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."