Verse 21

There are many plans in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:1 : 1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the LORD.
  • Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
  • Isa 14:24 : 24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it will come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it will stand:
  • Ps 33:10-11 : 10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect. 11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
  • Isa 14:26-27 : 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
  • Job 23:13 : 13 But he is of one mind, and who can change him? And whatever his soul desires, that he does.
  • Isa 46:10 : 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
  • Eph 1:11 : 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will:
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against the LORD.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
  • Acts 5:38-39 : 38 And now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work is of men, it will come to nothing. 39 But if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.
  • Prov 12:2 : 2 A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wills.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.
  • Gen 37:19-20 : 19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. 20 Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast has devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
  • Esth 9:25 : 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  • Gen 45:4-8 : 4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now do not 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 still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And 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 say to Him, What are you doing?
  • Dan 11:24-25 : 24 He shall enter peaceably even into the richest places of the province, and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his ancestors: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; yea, and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time. 25 And 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 be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall devise plans against him.
  • Matt 26:4-5 : 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by stealth, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
  • Matt 27:63-64 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last deception will be worse than the first.
  • Acts 4:27-28 : 27 For truly 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 purpose determined before to be done.
  • Isa 7:6-7 : 6 Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a breach in it for ourselves, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: 7 Thus says the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, nor shall it come to pass.
  • Heb 6:17-18 : 17 In this way, God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable nature of His purpose, confirmed it with an oath: 18 That by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, 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. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.