Bible Verses About The Providence of God: The wicked made to promote the designs
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But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Verses on The wicked made to promote the designs
5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
17And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
18But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.