DEUTERONOMY 31:6

…The Lord your God goes with you;

he will never leave you nor forsake you.

DEUTERONOMY 33:27

The eternal God is your refuge,

    and underneath are the 
        everlasting arms.

2 CHRONICLES 20:12

We do not know what to do,

but our eyes are upon you

JOB 23:10-12

He knows the way that I take;

    when he has tested me, I will

come forth as gold.

My feet have closely followed his steps;

    I have kept to his way 
        without turning aside.

I have not departed from the

commands of his lips;

    I have treasured the words of his

mouth more than my daily bread.

JOB 42:1-3,5

Then Job replied to the Lord:

“I know that you can do all things;

    no plan of yours can be thwarted.

You asked, ‘Who is this that

obscures my counsel without knowledge?'

    Surely I spoke of things
        I did not understand,

    things too wonderful for me to know."

“My ears had heard of you

    but now my eyes have seen you.”

PSALM 13:5-6

I trust in your unfailing love;

    my heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord,

    for he has been good to me.

PSALM 31:14-15,24

But I trust in you, O Lord;

    I say, “You are my God.”

My times are in your hands

Be strong and take heart,

    all you who hope in the Lord.

PSALM 33:20-22

We wait in hope for the  Lord;

    he is our help and our shield.

In him our hearts rejoice,

    for we trust in his holy name.

May your unfailing love rest upon us,
        O Lord,

    even as we put our hope in you.

PSALM 46:1-3, 10

God is our refuge and strength,

    an ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear,

    though the earth give way and

the mountains fall into the heart
        of the sea,

    though its waters roar and foam

       and the mountains quake
            with their surging.

Be still and know that I am God.

PSALM 48:14

This God is our God
         for ever and ever

    he will be our guide even to the end.

PSALM 55:22

Cast your cares on the Lord

     and he will sustain you;

    he will never let the righteous fall.

PSALM 56:3-4

When I am afraid,

    I will trust in you.

In God, whose word I praise,

    in God I trust; I will not be afraid.

PSALM 61:1-3

Hear my cry, O God;

    listen to my prayer.

From the ends of the earth I call to you,

    I call as my heart grows faint;

    lead me to the rock 
        that is higher than I.

For you have been my refuge,

    a strong tower against the foe.

PSALM 68:19

Praise be to the Lord, 
        to God our Savior,

    who daily bears our burdens.

PSALM 91:1-2

He who dwells in the shelter
         of the Most High

    will rest in the shadow
        of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my

refuge and my fortress,

    my God, in whom I trust.”

PSALM 119:68

You are good, 
    and what you do is good.

PSALM 121:1-2

I lift my eyes to the hills –

    where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord,

    the Maker of heaven and earth.

PSALM 139:13-16

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my

mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you

    when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the

depths of the earth,

    your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me

    were written in your book

    before one of them came to be.

PROVERBS 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

    and lean not on your
        own understanding;

in all your ways acknowledge him,

    and he will make your paths straight.

PROVERBS 16:9

In his heart a man plans his course,

    but the Lord determines his steps.

PROVERBS 19:21

Many are the plans in a man’s heart,

    but it is the Lord’s purpose
        that prevails.

PROVERBS 20:24

A man’s steps are directed by the Lord.

How then can anyone
    understand his own way?

JEREMIAH 10:23

I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is

    not his own;

it is not for man to direct his steps.

PROVERBS 21:30

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan

    that can succeed against the Lord.

ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2

There is a time for everything,

    and a season for every activity

under heaven;

    a time to be born and a time to die.

ISAIAH 14:24

The Lord Almighty has sworn,

“Surely, as I have planned it, so it will be,

    and as I have purposed, so it will stand."

ISAIAH 26:3-4,19

You will keep in perfect peace

    him whose mind is steadfast,

    because he trusts in you.

Trust in the Lord forever,

    for the Lord, the Lord, is the

Rock eternal.

ISAIAH 33:6

He will be the sure foundation for

    your times.

ISAIAH 41:10

“So do not fear, for I am with you;

    do not be dismayed, for I am
            your God.

I will strengthen you and help you;

    I will uphold you with my

righteous right hand.”

ISAIAH 42:16

“I will lead the blind
        by ways they have not known,

    along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;

I will turn the darkness into light
        before them

    and make the rough places smooth.

These are the things I will do;

    I will not forsake them.”

ISAIAH 43:1-3,10-11,25

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;

    I have summoned you by name;

        you are mine.

When you pass through the waters,

    I will be with you;

and when you pass through the rivers,

    they will not sweep over you.

When you walk through the fire,

    you will not be burned;

    the flames will not set you ablaze.

For I am the Lord, your God,

    the Holy One of Israel, your Savior."

ISAIAH 48:17

This is what the Lord says –

    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God,

    who teaches you what is best for you,

    who directs you in the way you should go."

ISAIAH 50:10

Let him who walks in the dark,

    who has no light,

trust in the name of the Lord

    and rely on his God.

ISAIAH 55:8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

    neither are your ways my ways,”

                              declares the Lord.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth,

    so are my ways higher than your ways

    and my thoughts than your thoughts."

ISAIAH 64:8

Yet, O Lord, you are our Father.

    We are the clay, you are the potter,

    we are all the work of your hand.

JEREMIAH 10:23

I know, O Lord, that a man’s life
        is not his own;

    it is not for man to direct his steps.

JEREMIAH 18:6

“O house of Israel,

can I not do with you as this potter does?"

                              declares the Lord.

“Like clay in the hand of the potter,

so are you in my hand, O house of Israel."

JEREMIAH 29:11

“For I know the plans I have for you,”

                             declares the Lord,

“Plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

     plans to give you hope and a future.”

JEREMIAH 31:3

“I have loved you with an

          everlasting love.”

LAMENTATIONS 3:21-23

Yet this I call to mind

    and therefore I have hope:

Because of the Lord’s great love

we are not consumed,

    for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

I will say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion;

    therefore I will wait for Him.’

HABAKKUK 3:17-19

Thought the fig tree does not bud

    and there are no grapes on the vines

thought the olive crop fails

    and the fields produce no food,

though there are no sheep in the pen

    and no cattle in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the Lord,

    I will be joyful in God my Savior.

The Sovereign Lord is my strength;

    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,

    he enables me to go on the heights.

MATTHEW 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,

for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own."

MATTHEW 10:29-31

“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?

Yet not one of them will fall to the ground

apart from the will of your Father.

And even the very hairs of your head

    are all numbered.

So don’t be afraid;

you are worth more than many sparrows."

MATTHEW 11:28-30

“Come to me, all you who are

    weary and burdened,

and I will give you rest.

Take my yolk upon you and learn from me,

    for I am gentle and humble in heart,

and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yolk is easy and my

    burden is light.”

JOHN 8:26

“He who sent me is reliable.”

JOHN 14:1

“Do not let your hearts be troubled.

Trust in God;

    trust also in me.

JOHN 14:27

“Peace I leave with you;

my peace I give you.

I do not give to you as the world gives.

Do not let your hearts be troubled

and do not be afraid.”

ROMANS 5:1-5

Therefore, since we have been

    justified through faith,

we have peace with God through our

    Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom we have gained

    access by faith

    into this grace in which we now stand.

And we rejoice in the hope of the

    glory of God.

Not only so,

    but we also rejoice in our sufferings,

because we know that suffering

    produces perseverance;

        perseverance, character; and

            character, hope.

And hope does not disappoint us,

because God has poured out his

    love into our hearts

by the Holy Spirit, whom he has

    given us.

ROMANS 8:17-18,23-24.28-19

Now if we are children, then we are heirs –

    heirs of God and coheirs with Christ,

if indeed we share in his sufferings

    in order that we may also share
        in his glory.

I consider that our present

    sufferings are not worth comparing

with the glory that will be revealed in us.

…we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons,

        the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved.

And we know that in all things

God works for the good
     of those who love him,

who have been called 
    according to his purpose.

For those God foreknew
    he also predestined

    to be conformed to the likeness
        of his Son,

that he might be the firstborn

    among many brothers.

ROMANS 8:31,35,37-39

If God is for us,

who can be against us?

Who shall separate us
    from the love of Christ?

Shall trouble or hardship

or persecution or famine

or nakedness or danger or sword?

No, in all these things we are

more than conquerors through him

    who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither

    death nor life,

neither angels nor demons,

neither the present or the future,

    nor any powers,

neither height nor depth,

    nor anything else in all creation,

will be able to separate us from the

    love of God

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:9

God, who has called you into fellowship

with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,

    is faithful.

2 CORINTHIANS 1:3-5

Praise be to the God and Father of

    our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of compassion and the

    God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our troubles

    so that we can comfort those
        in any trouble

with the comfort that we ourselves

    have received from God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ

    flow over into our lives,

so also through Christ 
    our comfort overflows.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18

Therefore we do not lose heart.

Though outwardly we are wasting away,

    yet inwardly we are being renewed

        day by day.

For our light and momentary troubles

    are achieving for us an eternal

glory that far outweighs them all.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,

    but on what is unseen.

For what is seen is temporary,

    but what is unseen is eternal.

2 CORINTHIANS 5-7

We live by faith, not by sight.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10

He said to me,

“My grace is sufficient for you,

    for my power is made perfect
       in weakness."

Therefore I will boast all the more

    gladly about my weaknesses,

so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

That is why, for Christ’s sake,

    I delight in weaknesses, in insults,

in hardships, in persecutions,

    in difficulties.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

PHILIPPIANS 1:29

For it has been granted to you on

    behalf of Christ

not only to believe on him, but also

    to suffer for him.

PHILIPPIANS 3:10,13-14

I want to know Christ

    and the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship

   of sharing in his sufferings

One thing I do:

Forgetting what is behind

    and straining toward what is ahead,

I press on toward the goal to win the prize

    for which God has called me heavenward

      in Christ Jesus.

PHILIPPIANS 4:4-7,11-13,19

Rejoice in the Lord always.

I will say it again:  Rejoice!

Let your gentleness be evident to all.

The Lord is near.

Do not be anxious about anything,

    but in everything,

by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,

    present your requests to God.

And the peace of God, which

    transcends all understanding,

will guard your hearts and minds

    in Christ Jesus.

I have learned to be content 

          whatever the circumstances.

I know what it is to be in need, and I

    know what it is to have plenty.

I have learned the secret of being content

    in any and every situation,

whether well fed or hungry, whether

    living in plenty or in want.

I can do everything through him

    who gives me strength.

God will meet all your needs

    according to his glorious riches in

        Christ Jesus.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-18,24

Be joyful always;

pray continually;

give thanks in all circumstances,

    for this is God’s will for you in

Christ Jesus.

The one who calls you is faithful.

HEBREWS 4:12-13

The word of God is living and active.

Sharper than any double-edged sword,

It penetrates even to dividing soul

          and spirit, joints and marrow;

it judges the thoughts and attitudes

          of the heart.

Nothing in all creation is hidden

          from God’s sight.

Everything is uncovered and laid bare

before the eyes of him to whom we

          must give account.

HEBREWS 6:19-20

We have this hope
    as an anchor for the soul,

        firm and secure.

It enters the inner sanctuary behind

    the curtain,

where Jesus, who went before us,

    has entered on our behalf.

HEBREWS 11:1

Faith is being sure of what we hope for

    and certain of what we do not see.

HEBREWS 10:23

Let us hold unswervingly to the

    hope we profess,

for he who promised is faithful.

HEBREWS 12:1-3

Since we are surrounded by such a

    great cloud of witnesses,

let us throw off everything that hinders

    and the sin that so easily entangles,

and let us run with perseverance

    the race marked out for us.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,

    the author and perfecter of our faith,

who for the joy set before him

    endured the cross,

        scorning its shame,

and sat down at the right hand of

    the throne of God.

Consider him who endured such

    opposition from sinful men,

so that you will not grow weary
    and lose heart.

HEBREWS 13:5,8

God has said,

    “Never will I leave you;

        never will I forsake you.”

Jesus Christ is the same

yesterday and today and forever.

JAMES 1:2-4

Consider it pure joy my brothers,

    whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing

    of your faith develops perseverance.

Perseverance must finish its work

    so that you may be mature and complete,

        not lacking anything.

JAMES 1:12

Blessed is the man 
    who perseveres under trial,

because when he had stood the test,

    he will receive the crown of life

        that God has promised 
            to those who love him.

1 PETER 1:3-9

Praise be to the God and Father of

    our Lord Jesus Christ!

In his great mercy

    he has given us new birth
        into a living hope

    through the resurrection 
    of Jesus Christ from the dead,

and into an inheritance that can

    never perish, spoil or fade –

    kept in heaven for you,

who through faith 
    are shielded by God's power

    until the coming of the salvation

    that is ready to be revealed
        in the last time.

In this you greatly rejoice,

    though now for a little while

you may have had to suffer grief in

    all kinds of trials.

These have come so that your faith –

   of greater worth than gold,

which perishes even though refined by fire –

    may be proved genuine

and may result in praise, glory and honor

    when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Though you have not seen him, 
        you love him;

    and even though you do not see him

          now, you believe in him

and are filled with an inexpressible

    and glorious joy,

for you are receiving 
    the goal of your faith,

    the salvation of your souls.

1 PETER 2:20-21

If you suffer for doing good 
     and you endure it,

    this is commendable before God.

To this you were called,

    because Christ suffered for you,

leaving you an example,

    that you should follow in his steps.

1 PETER 4:12-13,16,19

Dear friends, do not be surprised at

    the painful trial you are suffering,

as though something strange were

    happening to you.

But rejoice that you participate in

    the sufferings of Christ,

so that you may be overjoyed when

    his glory is revealed.

If you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed,

    but praise God that you bear that name.

Those who suffer according to God’s will

    should commit themselves
    to their faithful Creator

        and continue to do good.

1 PETER 5:6-7

Humble yourselves, therefore, under

    God’s mighty hand,

        that he may lift you up in due time.

Cast all your anxiety on him

    because he cares for you.

REVELATION 1:17-18

  

“Do not be afraid.

I am the First and the Last.

I am the Living One;

I was dead, and behold I am alive

    for ever and ever!

And I hold the keys 
    of death and Hades."