Proverbs 19:21

People make many plans, but God's purpose prevails. The LORD's sovereign counsel overrules all human intentions.

Cross-references · 28

• Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
• Isa 14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
• Prov 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.
• Ps 33:10–11The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples.
• Isa 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
• Prov 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
• Eph 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
• Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
• Isa 14:26–27This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Acts 5:38–39So in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone. Let them go! For if their purpose or endeavor is of human origin, it will fail.
• Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
• Ps 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
• Acts 4:27–28In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
• Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
• Gen 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
• Gen 45:4–8Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
• Matt 27:63–64“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
• Prov 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Isa 7:6–7‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
• Dan 11:24–25In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.
• Esth 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Matt 26:4–5and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
• Heb 6:17–18So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
• Ps 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
• Gen 37:19–20“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

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