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19 Bible Verses About God Having a Plan

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Summary

  • Psalm 33:10-11 sets the plans of the nations, which the Lord foils, beside his own plans, which “stand firm forever.”
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was addressed to the exiles in Babylon, with a promise to bring them back when seventy years were completed.
  • Genesis 50:20 and Acts 2:23 each hold two intentions in one event: people meant harm, and God’s plan was carried out through it.
  • Romans 8:28 leads into foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified; Reformed and Arminian traditions read those verses differently.
  • Isaiah 55:8-9 and Romans 11:33, on God’s higher ways and untraceable paths, both come in passages about mercy.

The Bible says God has a plan no one can overturn, reaching from single lives to nations. It covers Assyria (Isaiah 14:24), the exiles in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:11), the harm Joseph’s brothers meant (Genesis 50:20), and the cross as “God’s deliberate plan” (Acts 2:23). Several of these verses set human plans beside God’s: people plan their course and the Lord establishes their steps (Proverbs 16:9). Ephesians 1 and Romans 8 describe a plan carried out in Christ, and Christians differ…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Wikipedia. “Unconditional election”: the Calvinist doctrine that election rests on God’s sovereign will and not upon the foreseen actions of man. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_election

Wikipedia. “Conditional election”: the Arminian belief that God chooses for salvation those he foresees will have faith in Christ. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_election

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