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;
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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;
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Isaiah 46:11
Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Isaiah 14:24
The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
Isaiah 14:25
To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
Isaiah 14:26
This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Isaiah 14:27
For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Psalms 33:11
The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.
Proverbs 19:21
A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Proverbs 21:30
Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Proverbs 16:9
A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
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.
Proverbs 16:1
The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Lamentations 3:38
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
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Isaiah 46:8
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
Isaiah 46:9
Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
Acts 15:18
Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.
Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these:
Matthew 24:36
But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.
Amos 3:7
Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.
Luke 1:70
(As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)
Acts 17:26
And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,
2 Peter 1:19
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
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Ephesians 1:9
Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands
Ephesians 1:10
The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,
Ephesians 1:11
In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
Ephesians 3:11
Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Romans 9:18
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
Romans 9:15
For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.
Ephesians 3:9
And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;
Hebrews 2:4
And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.
Job 33:13
Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?
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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?
Job 23:13
But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
Job 23:14
For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
Isaiah 43:13
From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Job 9:12
If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?
Job 9:13
God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.
Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
Psalms 33:9
For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
2 Chronicles 20:6
And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.
Job 9:19
If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
Psalms 2:7
I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
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Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:
Acts 4:27
For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,
Acts 4:28
To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
Psalms 76:10
The...will give you praise; the rest of...
Acts 2:23
Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:
Genesis 50:20
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Acts 3:18
But the things which God had made clear before, by the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would have to undergo, he has put into effect in this way.
1 Peter 2:8
And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
Exodus 9:16
But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.
2 Chronicles 25:16
But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
Ezekiel 38:16
And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
Jude 1:4
For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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Isaiah 44:7
If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
Isaiah 44:8
Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Isaiah 41:22
Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
Isaiah 41:23
Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.
Isaiah 42:9
See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
Isaiah 45:21
Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
Isaiah 48:5
For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.
Isaiah 48:3
I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.
Isaiah 43:9
Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Isaiah 41:26
Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.
Isaiah 43:12
I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.
Matthew 24:25
See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.
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Acts 5:39
But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.
Psalms 33:10
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
Psalms 115:3
But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
Jeremiah 4:28
The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
Isaiah 25:1
O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.
Job 34:29
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1 Samuel 3:18
Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.
Jeremiah 50:45
So give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Babylon, and to his purposes designed against the land of the Chaldaeans; Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.
Daniel 2:21
By him times and years are changed: by him kings are taken away and kings are lifted up: he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those whose minds are awake:
Daniel 4:17
This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
Daniel 4:24
This is the sense of it, O King, and it is the decision of the Most High which has come on my lord the king:
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
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Lamentations 3:37
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
Psalms 135:6
The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Jeremiah 51:29
And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.
Revelation 17:17
Because God has put it in their hearts to do his purpose, and to be of one mind, giving their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God have effect and are complete.
Isaiah 7:7
This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.
Isaiah 23:9
It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
Psalms 62:11
Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
Isaiah 8:10
Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
Isaiah 28:18
And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
Revelation 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when the sound of his horn is about to come, then will the secret of God be complete, of which he gave the good news to his servants the prophets.
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Hebrews 6:17
So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
Hebrews 6:18
So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
Malachi 3:6
For I am the Lord, I am unchanged; and so you, O sons of Jacob, have not been cut off.
Romans 11:29
Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
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.
1 Samuel 15:29
And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.
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Isaiah 10:5
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Isaiah 10:7
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 10:12
For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
Isaiah 37:26
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
2 Kings 19:25
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Isaiah 10:15
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
Isaiah 14:22
For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.
Isaiah 37:29
Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Jeremiah 47:7
How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.
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Isaiah 44:26
Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:
Isaiah 44:27
Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.
Isaiah 45:1
The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
Isaiah 45:2
I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
Isaiah 45:3
And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
Isaiah 45:4
Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:
Isaiah 45:6
So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isaiah 48:14
Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.
Isaiah 48:15
I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.
Isaiah 41:25
I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.
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Isaiah 48:6
All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
Isaiah 48:7
They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
Isaiah 48:4
Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
John 13:19
From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.
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Isaiah 55:11
So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
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Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
Romans 11:34
Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?
Isaiah 40:13
By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?
Job 12:13
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
Isaiah 28:29
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
Romans 11:36
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
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Romans 8:28
And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Romans 8:30
And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.
2 Timothy 1:9
Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
Romans 11:2
God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
Ephesians 1:4
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Ephesians 1:5
As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,
1 Peter 1:2
Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
Romans 9:11
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
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Isaiah 40:8
The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
Psalms 119:90
Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.
Psalms 119:91
They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.
Psalms 148:6
He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.
John 10:35
If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),
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Psalms 14:3
They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
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Isaiah 13:3
I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.
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Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
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Ezekiel 38:10
This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:
Ezekiel 38:11
And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:
Ezekiel 38:17
This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
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John 11:9
Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.
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John 11:10
But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
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Acts 23:11
And the night after, the Lord came to his side and said, Be of good heart, for as you have been witnessing for me in Jerusalem, so will you be my witness in Rome.
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