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Where is “For I know the plans I have for you” in the Bible?
“For I know the plans I have for you” is Jeremiah 29:11. God says it through the prophet Jeremiah, in a letter to Jews taken captive to Babylon.
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It is Jeremiah 29:11.
Yes, it is in the Bible.
God says it through the prophet Jeremiah, in a letter to Jews taken captive to Babylon.
The verse
For I myself know the plans I have in mind for you, declares Yahweh—plans for peace and not for disaster, to give you a future and something to hope for.
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What it means there
The verse before it says the exile will last 70 years (Jeremiah 29:10). The promise is to a whole people, and most who first heard it did not live to go home. It shows what God is like toward his people, on a long timeline.
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Where is “For I know the plans I have for you” in the Bible?
“For I know the plans I have for you” is Jeremiah 29:11. English Bibles word this verse in different ways. The Lumin Translation, a modern English Bible, is quoted here. God says it through the prophet Jeremiah, in a letter to Jews taken captive to Babylon.
Is “For I know the plans I have for you” in the Bible?
Yes. It is Jeremiah 29:11. In the Lumin Translation, Jeremiah 29:11 reads: “For I myself know the plans I have in mind for you, declares Yahweh—plans for peace and not for disaster, to give you a future and something to hope for.”
Who said “For I know the plans I have for you”?
God says it through the prophet Jeremiah, in a letter to Jews taken captive to Babylon.
What does “For I know the plans I have for you” mean in the Bible?
The verse before it says the exile will last 70 years (Jeremiah 29:10). The promise is to a whole people, and most who first heard it did not live to go home. It shows what God is like toward his people, on a long timeline.
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