Bible Verses about โplans for the futureโ
The Bible contains 42 verses about plans for the future across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor 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.โ
โEvery Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,โ
โBut seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.โ
โTrust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.โ
โSee the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?โ
โ"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'โ
โTherefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.โ
โTherefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?โ
โFor the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.โ
โFor men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,โ
โWhy are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,โ
โyet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.โ
โBut if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?โ
โ"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?โ
โLet no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.โ
โthat the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.โ
โholding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.โ
โBut know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.โ
โtraitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;โ
โwithout natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,โ
โTo him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.โ
โCommit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.โ
โFor I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.โ
โWhereas 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.โ
โFrom infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.โ
โalways learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.โ
โFor some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,โ
โBut you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.โ
โYes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.โ
โCome now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."โ
โFor you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."โ
โEven as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.โ
โbeing confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.โ
โBut evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.โ
โBut they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.โ
โBut you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,โ
โpersecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.โ
โBut now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.โ
โThere are many plans in a man's heart, but Yahweh's counsel will prevail.โ
โ"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.โ
โ"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.โ
โDon't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.โ
