Bible Verses About Sovereignty

“Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.”

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.”

“Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.”

“The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.”

“A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.”

“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.”

“The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.”

“All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

“I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

“Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.”

“Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?”

“The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”

“In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.”

“Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

“I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.”

“He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.”

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?”

“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”

“Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

“The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?”

“The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.”

“And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?”

“But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.”

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!”

“When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.”

“He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.”

“Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.”

“For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.”

“I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”

“And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.”

“At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.”

“Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.”

“A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?”

“Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.”

“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

“In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed. They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.”

“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.”

“Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

“Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.”

“I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.”

“This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’

“By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.”

“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”

“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.”

“He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”

“Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.”

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.”

“For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.”

“Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”