Psalm 139:17-18
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III
17 How precious to me are your designs, O God;
how vast the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands;
when I complete them, still you are with me.(A)
Psalm 139:17-18
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Wisdom 9:13
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13 For who knows God’s counsel,
or who can conceive what the Lord intends?(A)
Isaiah 40:13
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13 Who has directed the spirit of the Lord,
or instructed him as his counselor?(A)
Isaiah 40:13
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Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:13 Or mind
Romans 11:33-34
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33 [a]Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!(A)
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- 11:33–36 This final reflection celebrates the wisdom of God’s plan of salvation. As Paul has indicated throughout these chapters, both Jew and Gentile, despite the religious recalcitrance of each, have received the gift of faith. The methods used by God in making this outreach to the world stagger human comprehension but are at the same time a dazzling invitation to abiding faith.
- 11:34 The citation is from the Greek text of Is 40:13. Paul does not explicitly mention Isaiah in this verse, nor Job in Rom 11:35.
Romans 11:33-34
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Doxology
Footnotes
- Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the
- Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13
1 Corinthians 2:11
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11 Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
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1 Corinthians 2:11
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11 For who knows a person’s thoughts(A) except their own spirit(B) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
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