Making Plans

The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

Many <FI>are<Fi> the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Without counsel <FI>is<Fi> the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

The purposes of the diligent <FI>are<Fi> only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing? — read the full passage →

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

He doth give to thee according to thy heart, And all thy counsel doth fulfil.

Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man <FI>is<Fi> his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field--go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you. — read the full passage →

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise; — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'

And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, `This <FI>is<Fi> the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; — read the full passage →

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, — read the full passage →

Do not they err who are devising evil? And kindness and truth <FI>are<Fi> to those devising good,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us; — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is--to God.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

O Jehovah, my God <FI>art<Fi> Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

Words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who <FI>are<Fi> in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, — read the full passage →

For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

Poor <FI>is<Fi> he who is working--a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself. — read the full passage →

Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips <FI>is<Fi> only to want.

Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

And it cometh to pass, when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah hath given rest to him round about, from all his enemies, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

`The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

And Moses goeth up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Jericho, and Jehovah sheweth him all the land--Gilead unto Dan, — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

let all things be done decently and in order.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

Remember former things of old, For I <FI>am<Fi> Mighty, and there is none else, God--and there is none like Me. — read the full passage →

The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways. — read the full passage →

Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul.

Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you, — read the full passage →

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

Better <FI>is<Fi> a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife. — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →