Planning

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

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

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.

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

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

Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

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

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established; — read the full passage →

May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

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

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

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

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

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

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.

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

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

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

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

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.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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.

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

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,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: — read the full passage →

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years. — read the full passage →

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

A prudent man sees danger, and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

“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.”

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail. — read the full passage →

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

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

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — 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 →

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! — read the full passage →

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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?

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

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;

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 →

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Let all that you do be done in love.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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. — read the full passage →