20 Bible Verses about Destiny

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

The Lord will accomplish what concerns me;
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

“I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Commit your works to the Lord
And your plans will be established.

but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written,
“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Listen to counsel and accept discipline,
That you may be wise the rest of your days.

Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright;
For the man of peace will have a posterity.

so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,
And the rod of his fury will perish.

So teach us to number our days,
That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.