11 For I know the plans(A) I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper(B) you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.(C)

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11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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22 Plans fail for lack of counsel,(A)
    but with many advisers(B) they succeed.(C)

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22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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11 In him we were also chosen,[a] having been predestined(A) according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose(B) of his will,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:11 Or were made heirs

11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

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15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will,(A) we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.(B)

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15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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