Plans

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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.

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

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

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

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 →

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name. — read the full passage →

Pray without ceasing. — read the full passage →

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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 →

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown. — read the full passage →

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.” — 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.

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.

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 →

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. — read the full passage →

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. — read the full passage →

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Most certainly I tell you, this generationwill not pass away, until all these things are accomplished. — read the full passage →

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your seed and your name shall remain.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. — read the full passage →

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. — read the full passage →

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. — read the full passage →

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. — read the full passage →

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding. — read the full passage →

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. — read the full passage →

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. — read the full passage →

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods. — read the full passage →

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it! — read the full passage →

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. — read the full passage →

Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children. — read the full passage →

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then the king said to me, “For what do you make request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. — read the full passage →

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. — read the full passage →

For I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. — read the full passage →

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.” — read the full passage →

Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. — read the full passage →

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — read the full passage →

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.” — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — read the full passage →