(Setting Goals for your Life )

Old Testament Bible Verses for Setting Goals 

“Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! 

Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm 

so that I will be free from pain.” ~ 1 Chronicles 4:10 

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work 

will be rewarded. ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7 

May he give you the desire of your heart and make all 

your plans succeed. ~ Psalm 20:4 

But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of 

his heart through all generations. ~ Psalm 33:11 

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires 

of your heart. ~ Psalm 37:4 

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust

 in humans. ~ Psalm 118:8 

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders 

labor in vain. ~ Psalm 127:1 

Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your 

own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, 

And He will make your paths straight. ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 

Without consultation, plans are frustrated, But with many c

ounselors they succeed. ~ Proverbs 15:22 

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will 

establish your plans. ~ Proverbs 16:3 

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD 

establishes their steps. ~ Proverbs 16:9 

Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s 

purpose that prevails. ~ Proverbs 19:21 

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance.

 ~ Proverbs 21:5 

Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, 

But happy is he who keeps the law. ~ Proverbs 29:18

 But the noble make noble plans, and by noble deeds 

they stand. ~ Isaiah 32:8 

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength;

 they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, 

and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, a

nd not faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31 

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not 

perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams 

in the wasteland. ~ Isaiah 43:19 

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways 

higher than your ways and my thoughts than 

your thoughts. ~ Isaiah 55:9 

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, 

whose confidence is in him. ~ Jeremiah 17:7 

What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, 

and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with 

your God? ~ Micah 6:8

 And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; 

make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. 

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to 

the end it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely 

come; it will not delay. ~ Habakkuk 2:2-3 

New Testament Bible Verses for Setting Goals 

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and 

rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, 

where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves 

do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, 

there your heart will be also. ~ Matthew 6:19-21 

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, 

and all these things will be added to you. ~ Matthew 6:33 

Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, 

you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will 

move. Nothing will be impossible for you. ~ Matthew 17:20 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible,

 but with God all things are possible. ~ Matthew 19:26 

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, 

if you have faith. ~ Matthew 21:22 

Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing 

the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him 

who sent me and to accomplish his work. ~ John 4:34 

And we know that for those who love God all things work 

together for good, for those who are called according 

to his purpose. ~ Romans 8:28 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed 

by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern 

what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable 

and perfect. ~ Romans 12:2 

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all 

that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, 

to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all 

generations forever and ever. Amen. ~ Ephesians 3:20-21 

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 

~ Philippians 4:13 

Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of 

God in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 3:13-14 

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,

 you will receive what he has promised. ~ Hebrews 10:35-36 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, 

let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,

 and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 

looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, 

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, 

despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of 

the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners 

such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow 

weary or fainthearted. ~ Hebrews 12:1-3 

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. 

What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little 

while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 

‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’

 ~ James 4:13-15