Bible Verses about “knowing the future”
The Bible contains 20 verses about knowing the future across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.”
“Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.”
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.”
“¶ NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
“‹Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,› [that] ‹shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.›”
“Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:”
“For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
“For [there is] not a word in my tongue, [but], lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.”
“But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.”
“¶ [There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.”
“For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
“¶ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.”
“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:”
“When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”
“But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.”
“And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?”