purpose

Proverbs 16:1

Mortals make elaborate plans, but God has the last word. 

Proverbs 16:4

God made everything with a place and purpose

Proverbs 20:18

Form your purpose by asking for counsel, then carry it out using all the help you can get. 

Ephesians 1:11

It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone. 

Colossians 1:3

The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope.

Colossians 1:15

We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purposein him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment.