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17 Bible Verses About Goals

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Summary

  • Proverbs 16:9 and 19:21 assume that people make plans and say that the Lord establishes the steps and his purpose prevails.
  • James 4:13-15 addresses traders planning a year of business and tells them to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
  • Jesus’ tower builder in Luke 14:28 is one of two pictures of counting the cost, told to crowds about becoming his disciples.
  • In Philippians 3:12-14, Paul’s goal is “the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to the exiles in Babylon, after a command to settle there, and looks to the end of seventy years.

The Bible expects people to make plans and holds those plans under God’s purpose. Proverbs 16:9 puts it in one line: “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.” Proverbs praises diligent planning and good counsel (Proverbs 21:5; 15:22), James tells merchants to add “If it is the Lord’s will” to their plans (James 4:13-15), and Jesus uses a builder counting the cost of a tower to describe following him (Luke 14:28). In the New…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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