羅馬書 9:16
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
據此看來，這不在乎那定意的，也不在乎那奔跑的，只在乎發憐憫的神。
傳道書 9:1
So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.
我將這一切事放在心上，詳細考究，就知道義人和智慧人，並他們的作為都在神手中；或是愛，或是恨，都在他們的前面，人不能知道。
腓立比書 2:13
for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
因為你們立志行事都是神在你們心裡運行，為要成就他的美意。
耶利米書 45:5
Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.' "
你為自己圖謀大事嗎？不要圖謀！我必使災禍臨到凡有血氣的。但你無論往那裡去，我必使你以自己的命為掠物。這是耶和華說的。」
詩篇 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
（所羅門上行之詩。）若不是耶和華建造房屋，建造的人就枉然勞力；若不是耶和華看守城池，看守的人就枉然警醒。
傳道書 9:11
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
我又轉念：見日光之下，快跑的未必能贏；力戰的未必得勝；智慧的未必得糧食；明哲的未必得資財；靈巧的未必得喜悅。所臨到眾人的是在乎當時的機會。
詩篇 68:20
Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
神是為我們施行諸般救恩的神；人能脫離死亡是在乎主耶和華。
詩篇 124:2
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if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us,
they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;
若不是耶和華幫助我們，當人起來攻擊我們、
向我們發怒的時候，就把我們活活地吞了。
