Job 23:14
New Living Translation
14 So he will do to me whatever he has planned.
He controls my destiny.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
New Living Translation
9 For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.
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1 Thessalonians 3:3
New Living Translation
3 and to keep you from being shaken by the troubles you were going through. But you know that we are destined for such troubles.
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Isaiah 40:27-28
New Living Translation
27 O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?
O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?
28 Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
Psalm 77:19
New Living Translation
19 Your road led through the sea,
your pathway through the mighty waters—
a pathway no one knew was there!
1 Peter 2:8
New Living Translation
8 And,
“He is the stone that makes people stumble,
the rock that makes them fall.”[a]
They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.
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Romans 11:33
New Living Translation
33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!
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Micah 6:9
New Living Translation
Israel’s Guilt and Punishment
9 Fear the Lord if you are wise!
His voice calls to everyone in Jerusalem:
“The armies of destruction are coming;
the Lord is sending them.[a]
Footnotes
- 6:9 Hebrew “Listen to the rod. / Who appointed it?”
Psalm 97:2
New Living Translation
2 Dark clouds surround him.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Job 7:3
New Living Translation
3 I, too, have been assigned months of futility,
long and weary nights of misery.
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