Proverbs 16:1

People may make their plans, but the final word ultimately comes from the Lord. It matters because God remains sovereign even over our intentions and speech.

Cross-references · 21

• Prov 19:21There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
• Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
• Luke 21:14–15Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Prov 20:24A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
• Matt 10:19–20But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
• Luke 12:11–12When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don’t be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
• Jer 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
• Ezek 36:26–27I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• Exod 4:11–12Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
• Exod 4:15You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
• Jer 1:7–9But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
• Ezra 7:27Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• Ps 119:36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
• Ps 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
• 2 Chr 18:31When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they turned around to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
• Neh 1:11Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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