May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.
Parallel translations
- KJV Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
- BSB May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
- NKJV May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, And fulfill all your purpose.
- NASB ¶May He grant you your heart’s desire And fulfill your whole plan!
- NLT May he grant your heart’s desires and make all your plans succeed.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
- Ps 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
- Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
- Ps 21:2You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
- John 16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
- Rom 8:27–28He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
- Prov 11:23The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- John 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
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