Romans 11:34

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.

“Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.