Proverbs 21:30
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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.
Acts 5:39
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39 but (A)if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You (B)might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,
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Jeremiah 9:23
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23 Thus says the Lord: (A)“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
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Proverbs 19:21
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21 (A)Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
but (B)it is the purpose of the Lord (C)that will stand.
Isaiah 14:27
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27 (A)For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
(B)His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
Isaiah 8:9-10
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9 Be broken,[a] you peoples, and (A)be shattered;[b]
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, (B)but it will not stand,
for God (C)is with us.[c]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
- Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
- Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel
Acts 4:27-28
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27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your (A)holy servant Jesus, (B)whom you anointed, both (C)Herod and (D)Pontius Pilate, along (E)with the Gentiles and (F)the peoples of Israel, 28 (G)to do whatever your hand and (H)your plan had predestined to take place.
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1 Corinthians 3:19-20
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19 For (A)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, (B)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,” 20 and again, (C)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”
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Isaiah 46:10-11
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10 (A)declaring the end from the beginning
and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, (B)‘My counsel shall stand,
and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
11 (C)calling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
(D)I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.
Isaiah 7:5-7
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5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and (A)the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it[a] for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7 thus says the Lord God:
(B)“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 7:6 Hebrew let us split it open
1 Peter 2:8
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8 and
(A)“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, (B)as they were destined to do.
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Jonah 1:13
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13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard[a] to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
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- Jonah 1:13 Hebrew the men dug in [their oars]
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