Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
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Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
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Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
Jeremiah 10:23
O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.
Proverbs 19:21
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Proverbs 20:24
A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
Psalms 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Isaiah 46:10
Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Daniel 4:35
And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
John 11:51
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
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Psalms 10:17
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
Proverbs 21:1
The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
Philippians 2:13
For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.
James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;
Romans 8:26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
1 Chronicles 29:18
O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;
2 Chronicles 29:36
And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.
2 Chronicles 30:12
And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.
Ezra 1:5
Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:27
Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)
2 Corinthians 8:16
But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.
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Proverbs 16:2
All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Proverbs 16:3
Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.
Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
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Proverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
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Matthew 10:19
But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;
Matthew 10:20
Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.
Exodus 4:11
And the Lord said to him, Who has made man's mouth? who takes away a man's voice or hearing, or makes him seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
Exodus 4:12
So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.
Jeremiah 1:9
Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:
Amos 4:7
And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Luke 12:12
For the Holy Spirit will make clear to you in that very hour what to say.
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Job 11:13
But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;
1 Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
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Psalms 17:5
I have kept my feet in your ways, my steps have not been turned away.
Psalms 119:116
Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.
Psalms 119:117
Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.
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Psalms 44:2
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
Psalms 44:3
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
Psalms 94:16
Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
Psalms 94:17
If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
Psalms 94:18
If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
Psalms 94:19
Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.
Psalms 94:22
But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.
Psalms 94:23
And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
Psalms 127:1
A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
Psalms 127:2
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
Proverbs 21:31
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
Romans 12:3
But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.
Romans 12:6
And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;
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Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
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Micah 3:7
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
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Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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