Acts 4:28

New Living Translation

But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will.

Cross References

Genesis 50:20

You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

Job 12:13

“But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are his.

Psalm 76:10

Human defiance only enhances your glory, for you use it as a weapon.

Proverbs 21:30

No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:24

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has sworn this oath: “It will all happen as I have planned. It will be as I have decided.

Isaiah 28:29

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom.

Isaiah 37:26

“But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble.

Isaiah 40:13

Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him?

Isaiah 46:10

Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.

Isaiah 5:19

They even mock God and say, “Hurry up and do something! We want to see what you can do. Let the Holy One of Israel carry out his plan, for we want to know what it is.”

Isaiah 53:10

But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands.

Matthew 26:24

For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!”

Matthew 26:54

But if I did, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that describe what must happen now?”

Luke 22:22

For it has been determined that the Son of Man must die. But what sorrow awaits the one who betrays him.”

Acts 2:23

But God knew what would happen, and his prearranged plan was carried out when Jesus was betrayed. With the help of lawless Gentiles, you nailed him to a cross and killed him.

Acts 3:18

But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things.

Ephesians 1:11

Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.

Hebrews 6:17

God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.