25 Bible Verses About Making Plans (ESV)

9   The heart of man plans his way,
    but the LORD establishes his steps.

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

3   Commit your work to the LORD,
    and your plans will be established.

22   Without counsel plans fail,
    but with many advisers they succeed.

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

16:1   The plans of the heart belong to man,
    but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

21   Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
    but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

6   In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

5   The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
    but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

5   “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
  and before you were born I consecrated you;
  I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

5   Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
    and do not lean on your own understanding.
6   In all your ways acknowledge him,
    and he will make straight your paths.

7   “For the Lord GOD does nothing
    without revealing his secret
    to his servants the prophets.

23   I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself,
    that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Nun

105   Your word is a lamp to my feet
    and a light to my path.

13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

127:1   Unless the LORD builds the house,
    those who build it labor in vain.
  Unless the LORD watches over the city,
    the watchman stays awake in vain.

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

27   Prepare your work outside;
    get everything ready for yourself in the field,
    and after that build your house.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.