Proverbs 19:21

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

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

2 Samuel 17:14

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

Esther 9:25

But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.

Job 23:13

“But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.

Psalm 21:11

Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.

Psalm 83:4

“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

Proverbs 12:2

Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.

Proverbs 16:1

To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.

Proverbs 16:9

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

Proverbs 19:22

What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.

Proverbs 21:1

In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.

Proverbs 21:30

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

Ecclesiastes 7:29

This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.

Isaiah 46:10

I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’

Jeremiah 44:29

“ ‘This will be the sign to you that I will punish you in this place,’ declares the Lord, ‘so that you will know that my threats of harm against you will surely stand.’

Ezekiel 20:32

“ ‘You say, “We want to be like the nations, like the peoples of the world, who serve wood and stone.” But what you have in mind will never happen.

Daniel 4:35

All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”

Ephesians 1:11

In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,

1 Peter 2:8

and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

Jude 1:4

For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.