Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Acts 4:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To carry out all that Your hand and Your will and purpose had predestined (predetermined) should occur. American Standard Version (1901) to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. Common English Bible They did what your power and plan had already determined would happen. Catholic Public Domain Version to do what your hand and your counsel had decreed would be done. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To do what thy hand and thy counsel decreed to be done. |
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Human wrath serves only to praise you, when you bind the last bit of your wrath around you.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have designed, so shall it be, and as I have planned, so shall it come to pass:
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
Who has directed the spirit of the Lord or as his counselor has instructed him?
declaring the outcome from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, “My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfill my intention,”
who say, “Let him make haste; let him speed his work that we may see it; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment, that we may know it!”
Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.
The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”
But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, which say it must happen in this way?”
For the Son of Man is going as it has been determined, but woe to that one by whom he is betrayed!”
this man, handed over to you according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law.
In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,
In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,