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 devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
• Prov 16:9A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
• Luke 21:14–15Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Prov 20:24Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
• Matt 10:19–20But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
• Luke 12:11–12And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
• Jer 10:23O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
• Ezek 36:26–27A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
• Jer 32:39–40And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Jas 1:16–18Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• Exod 4:11–12And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
• Exod 4:15And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
• Jer 1:7–9But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
• Ezra 7:27Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
• Ps 119:36Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
• Ps 10:17LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
• 2 Chr 18:31And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
• Neh 1:11O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

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