Bible Verses about “planning ahead”
The Bible contains 21 verses about planning ahead across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“A man's heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.”
“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?”
“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”
“"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.”
“Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.”
“The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.”
“The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."”
“Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;”
“Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.”
“which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,”
“provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.”
“Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."”
“For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."”
“One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.”
“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”
“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”
“The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.”
“So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.”
“Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?”
“Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.”