Providence of God, The

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• Luke 21:33 NT

  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

• Proverbs 16:9 OT

  A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

• Proverbs 19:21 OT

  There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

• Proverbs 20:24 OT

  A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

• 1 Samuel 2:7 OT

  Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

• 1 Samuel 2:8 OT

  He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

• Psalms 75:6 OT

  For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

• Psalms 75:7 OT

  But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

• Psalms 31:15 OT

  My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

• Psalms 39:5 OT

  Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

• Acts 17:26 NT

  He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

• Exodus 15:9-19 OT

  The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’ You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the…

• 2 Samuel 17:14 OT

  Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 17:15 OT

  Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel that way; and I have counseled this way.

• Psalms 33:10 OT

  Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

• Genesis 45:5-7 OT

  Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and…

• Genesis 50:20 OT

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

• Philippians 1:12 NT

  Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

• Genesis 8:22 OT

  While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

• Job 26:10 OT

  He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

• Psalms 104:5-9 OT

  He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. The…

• Joshua 7:14 OT

  In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh…

• 1 Samuel 6:7-10 OT

  “Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; and take Yahweh’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of…

• 1 Samuel 6:12 OT

  The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh. They went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth…