100 Bible Verses About Destiny

Bible verses about Destiny

Understanding destiny through scripture is a journey of discovering God's loving plan for your life. These verses offer glimpses into a divine tapestry woven with purpose and intention, revealing that you are not a product of chance but a cherished creation with a unique calling. As you explore these passages, allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate your path, guiding you towards the fulfillment of your God-given potential. Embrace the assurance that your steps are ordered by the Lord and that even amidst life's uncertainties, His unwavering love and steadfast faithfulness will lead you to your ultimate destiny in Him.

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Ruth 1:20 (KJV)

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

God's Plan: Discover Your Destiny in Scripture

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Job 23:14KJV

And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11:37KJV

And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 11:29KJV

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Job 37:12KJV

And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

1 Samuel 9:6KJV

The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

1 Samuel 2:7KJV

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 18:18KJV

And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!

2 Kings 3:10KJV

And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

Genesis 39:3KJV

The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

Psalms 16:5KJV

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Proverbs 5:6KJV

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

Psalms 89:20KJV

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

Isaiah 49:1KJV

Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

1 Samuel 25:29KJV

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Isaiah 46:10KJV

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

1 Kings 8:19KJV

Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:5KJV

And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

1 Samuel 17:27KJV

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Psalms 40:7KJV

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Genesis 40:12KJV

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:6KJV

And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Isaiah 57:14KJV

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Proverbs 11:19KJV

And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

2 Chronicles 18:24KJV

And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

Genesis 24:64KJV

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:23KJV

The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

Psalms 33:10KJV

And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

Genesis 30:11KJV

Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

Isaiah 41:2KJV

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher–shalal–hash–baz.

Isaiah 8:3KJV

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Isaiah 9:2KJV

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:3KJV

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jeremiah 2:37KJV

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

Psalms 103:7KJV

And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

Deuteronomy 10:11KJV

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Psalms 45:16KJV

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

Genesis 26:4KJV

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 27:6KJV

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

Genesis 40:17KJV

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 45:13KJV

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

Isaiah 62:10KJV

And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.

2 Samuel 18:10KJV

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 4:18KJV

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Isaiah 48:14KJV

Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

1 Samuel 9:15KJV

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

Genesis 22:6KJV

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:19KJV

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 32:1KJV

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

Ecclesiastes 1:7KJV

And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

1 Samuel 14:42KJV

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

Psalms 145:13KJV

But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

2 Samuel 15:26KJV

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalms 122:2KJV

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

Deuteronomy 30:1KJV

So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

Joshua 7:16KJV

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Genesis 41:1KJV

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

Genesis 37:11KJV

So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:8KJV

In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

1 Samuel 3:12KJV

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

2 Chronicles 34:28KJV

And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

Genesis 40:20KJV

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

Psalms 48:4KJV

Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

Joshua 23:4KJV

And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

Exodus 4:13KJV

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11KJV

So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

1 Kings 2:27KJV

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

Genesis 40:5KJV

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

Esther 3:7KJV

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Esther 8:6KJV

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Psalms 49:19KJV

In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

Isaiah 18:7KJV

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

Genesis 27:37KJV

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Psalms 73:24KJV

And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Deuteronomy 28:68KJV

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

Isaiah 51:16KJV

For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deuteronomy 15:6KJV

And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.

Deuteronomy 33:23KJV

And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:

Joshua 7:17KJV

But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 1:38KJV

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:14KJV

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 2:17KJV

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

Isaiah 27:7KJV

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Genesis 22:17KJV

And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.

1 Samuel 9:17KJV

For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:9KJV

Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

1 Kings 14:14KJV

This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

Isaiah 14:26KJV

So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

1 Samuel 31:6KJV

And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

Genesis 44:15KJV

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Ruth 1:20KJV

Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Numbers 33:56KJV

Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Deuteronomy 28:19KJV

So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth–el.

1 Kings 13:10KJV

And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

Genesis 41:11KJV

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Genesis 19:25KJV

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

Isaiah 22:20KJV

Then went king David in, and sat before the Lord, and he said, Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

2 Samuel 7:18KJV

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

Genesis 24:43KJV

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalms 107:7KJV

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Psalms 1:3KJV

The Bible's verses on destiny reveal a profound interplay between divine sovereignty and human agency. From Jeremiah's pre-ordained purpose to Ephesians' call to live out our adoption in Christ, Scripture underscores that God has a plan, yet also invites us into active participation. These verses are not meant to foster fatalism, but rather to inspire hope and purposeful living. Reflect on the implications of these truths: How does knowing God has a plan shape your daily decisions? How can you better align your actions with His revealed will? Ultimately, these passages encourage us to seek God's wisdom, embrace His guidance, and trust that He is working all things together for good, even as we navigate the journey He has uniquely designed for each of us.