Acts 5:38
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38 So in the present case, I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, because if this plan or this undertaking is of human origin, it will fail;(A)
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Matthew 15:13
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13 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.(A)
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Lamentations 3:37
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37 Who can command and have it done,
if the Lord has not ordained it?(A)
Isaiah 8:9-10
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9 Take notice,[a] you peoples, and be dismayed;
listen, all you far countries;
gird yourselves and be dismayed![b]
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught;
speak a word, but it will not stand,
for God is with us.”(A)
Isaiah 7:5-7
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5 Because Aram—with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah—has plotted evil against you, saying, 6 ‘Let us go up against Judah and terrify it[a] and conquer it for ourselves and make the son of Tabeel king in it’; 7 therefore thus says the Lord God:
It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.(A)
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- 7.6 Or cut it off
Proverbs 21:30
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30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.(A)
Psalm 33:10-11
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10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.(A)
11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.(B)
Job 5:12-14
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12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.(A)
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.(B)
1 Corinthians 3:19
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19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written,
“He catches the wise in their craftiness,”(A)
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
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26 Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards,[a] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.(A) 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;(B) 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,
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- 1.26 Gk according to the flesh
John 11:48
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48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place[a] and our nation.”
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- 11.48 Or our temple; Gk our place
Isaiah 14:25
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25 I will break the Assyrian in my land
and on my mountains trample him under foot;
his yoke shall be removed from them
and his burden from their shoulders.(A)
Nehemiah 4:15
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15 When our enemies heard that their plot was known to us and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.(A)
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Acts 5:35
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35 Then he said to them, “Fellow Israelites,[a] consider carefully what you propose to do to these men.
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- 5.35 Gk Men, Israelites
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