Gods Purpose

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — read the full passage →

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love; — read the full passage →

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.