Everything Happens for a Reason — Bible Verses

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:”

“A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.”

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.”

“And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.”

“For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.”

“And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.”

“The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.”

“As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.”

“No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.”

“Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?”

“If you do not experience discipline like everyone else, then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.”

“Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?”

“Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.”

“Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.”

“Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.”

“The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.”

“The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;”

“in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”

“Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.”

“Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

“Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.”

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.”

““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.”

““For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

“I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’”

“The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.”

“Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?”

“Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?”

“He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.”

““I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.”

“The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.”

“Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.”

“The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.”

“The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever— do not abandon the works of Your hands.”

“I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.”

“In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,”

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,”

“O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!”

“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.”

“being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

“For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.”

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,”

“because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.”

“Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

“For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.”

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials”

“so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.”