As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Proverbs 19:21 - English Standard Version 2016 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 There are many devices in a man's heart; Nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand. [Job 23:13; Ps. 33:10, 11; Isa. 14:26, 27; 46:10; Acts 5:39; Heb. 6:17.] American Standard Version (1901) There are many devices in a man’s heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand. Common English Bible Many plans are in a person’s mind, but the LORD’s purpose will succeed. Catholic Public Domain Version There are many intentions in the heart of a man. But the will of the Lord shall stand firm. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm. |
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom.
But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
This shall be the sign to you, declares the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:
“What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.