21 Bible Verses about God's Plans for You in 2025 (for Guidance and Purpose)

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

- Proverbs 19:21

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

- Jeremiah 29:11

I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

- Job 42:2

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

- James 4:13-16

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

- Genesis 50:20

Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.

- Proverbs 16:3

Plans fail for lack of counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.

- Proverbs 15:22

The plans of the diligent lead to profit
as surely as haste leads to poverty.

- Proverbs 21:5

²⁸ “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? ²⁹ For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, ³⁰ saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ ³¹ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

- Luke 14:28-31

Many, Lord my God,
are the wonders you have done,
the things you planned for us.
None can compare with you;
were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
they would be too many to declare.

- Psalm 40:5

¹⁰ The Lord foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
¹¹ But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations.

- Psalm 33:10-11

In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

- Psalm 10:4

The plans of the righteous are just,
but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

- Proverbs 12:5

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

- Ecclesiastes 8:11

Woe to those who go to great depths
to hide their plans from the Lord,
who do their work in darkness and think,
“Who sees us? Who will know?”

- Isaiah 29:15

You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,
but the Lord is their refuge.

- Psalm 14:6

¹ Woe to those who plan iniquity,
to those who plot evil on their beds!
At morning’s light they carry it out
because it is in their power to do it.
² They covet fields and seize them,
and houses, and take them.
They defraud people of their homes,
they rob them of their inheritance.

³ Therefore, the Lord says:

“I am planning disaster against this people,
from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,
for it will be a time of calamity.

- Micah 2:1-3

⁷ Scoundrels use wicked methods,
they make up evil schemes
to destroy the poor with lies,
even when the plea of the needy is just.
⁸ But the noble make noble plans,
and by noble deeds they stand.

- Isaiah 32:7-8

Do not those who plot evil go astray?
But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.

- Proverbs 14:22

Plans are established by seeking advice;
so if you wage war, obtain guidance.

- Proverbs 20:18

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan
that can succeed against the Lord.

- Proverbs 21:30