You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result #– #the survival of many people.
Acts 4:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised to do whatever your hand and your will had predestined to take place. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result #– #the survival of many people.
Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are his.
No wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel will prevail against the Lord.
The Lord of Armies has sworn: As I have purposed, so it will be; as I have planned it, so it will happen.
This also comes from the Lord of Armies. He gives wondrous advice; he gives great wisdom.
Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.
I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.
to those who say, ‘Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place so that we can know it! ’
Yet the Lord was pleased to crush him severely. , When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, he will prolong his days, and by his hand the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.’
How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way? ’
For the Son of Man will go away as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed! ’
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets #– #that his Messiah would suffer.
In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,
Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,