Acts 4:28

New American Bible - revised edition

to do what your hand and [your] will had long ago planned to take place.

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people.

Job 12:13

With him are wisdom and might; his are counsel and understanding.

Psalm 76:10

When you arose, O God, for judgment to save the afflicted of the land. Selah

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel prevail against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of hosts has sworn: As I have resolved, so shall it be; As I have planned, so shall it stand:

Isaiah 28:29

This too comes from the Lord of hosts; wonderful is his counsel and great his wisdom.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it, Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 40:13

Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor?

Isaiah 46:10

At the beginning I declare the outcome; from of old, things not yet done. I say that my plan shall stand, I accomplish my every desire.

Isaiah 5:19

Who say, “Let him make haste, let him speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!”

Isaiah 53:10

But it was the Lord’s will to crush him with pain. By making his life as a reparation offering, he shall see his offspring, shall lengthen his days, and the Lord’s will shall be accomplished through him.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”

Matthew 26:54

But then how would the scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must come to pass in this way?”

Luke 22:22

for the Son of Man indeed goes as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.”

Acts 2:23

This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.

Acts 3:18

but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.

Ephesians 1:11

In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,

Hebrews 6:17

So when God wanted to give the heirs of his promise an even clearer demonstration of the immutability of his purpose, he intervened with an oath,