100 Bible Verses about Gods Sovereignty

Psalm 115:3 ESV / 771 helpful votes

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Daniel 4:35 ESV / 683 helpful votes

All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 631 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Romans 8:28 ESV / 597 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 593 helpful votes

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 579 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Job 42:2 ESV / 557 helpful votes

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Psalm 135:6 ESV / 532 helpful votes

Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 512 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Isaiah 46:10 ESV / 506 helpful votes

Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Psalm 103:19 ESV / 457 helpful votes

The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 415 helpful votes

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

2 Chronicles 20:6 ESV / 403 helpful votes

And said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 381 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

1 Chronicles 29:11-12 ESV / 380 helpful votes

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Romans 9:18 ESV / 364 helpful votes

So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 358 helpful votes

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.

John 6:44 ESV / 349 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Isaiah 43:13 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 335 helpful votes

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 333 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Romans 9:21 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

1 Timothy 6:15 ESV / 301 helpful votes

Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

Ephesians 1:11-12 ESV / 300 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

Daniel 4:17 ESV / 279 helpful votes

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 274 helpful votes

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Lamentations 3:37 ESV / 270 helpful votes

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 257 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:23 ESV / 257 helpful votes

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 256 helpful votes

“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Revelation 4:11 ESV / 253 helpful votes

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

Romans 11:36 ESV / 248 helpful votes

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 247 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 246 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Luke 1:37 ESV / 245 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Deuteronomy 8:18 ESV / 240 helpful votes

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

1 Samuel 2:10 ESV / 237 helpful votes

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Acts 4:27-28 ESV / 234 helpful votes

For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

1 Chronicles 29:11 ESV / 233 helpful votes

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.

Matthew 10:29-30 ESV / 223 helpful votes

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 220 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Daniel 2:21 ESV / 220 helpful votes

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 219 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 218 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Isaiah 46:9-10 ESV / 218 helpful votes

Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

John 19:11 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 214 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

John 6:37 ESV / 213 helpful votes

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

Jeremiah 32:17 ESV / 212 helpful votes

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Romans 9:11 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—

Isaiah 14:27 ESV / 208 helpful votes

For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Acts 17:26 ESV / 204 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Psalm 29:10 ESV / 202 helpful votes

The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

Lamentations 3:37-38 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?

James 4:13-15 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

John 1:3-4 ESV / 197 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Isaiah 14:24 ESV / 197 helpful votes

The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

John 6:65 ESV / 190 helpful votes

And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 188 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Isaiah 43:15 ESV / 188 helpful votes

I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 187 helpful votes

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Proverbs 20:24 ESV / 186 helpful votes

A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?

Revelation 15:3 ESV / 185 helpful votes

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!

Romans 8:29 ESV / 184 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Revelation 19:6 ESV / 182 helpful votes

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 175 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Acts 13:48 ESV / 172 helpful votes

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Deuteronomy 2:30 ESV / 168 helpful votes

But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.

Psalm 22:28 ESV / 166 helpful votes

For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 166 helpful votes

Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

Isaiah 46:9-11 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.

Jeremiah 27:5 ESV / 163 helpful votes

“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 161 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Genesis 24:3 ESV / 160 helpful votes

That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,

Romans 9:20 ESV / 157 helpful votes

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 156 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 156 helpful votes

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Proverbs 16:1 ESV / 156 helpful votes

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 10:14 ESV / 154 helpful votes

Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.

Revelation 4:2 ESV / 150 helpful votes

At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

Revelation 20:11 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Romans 11:33-36 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 142 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Proverbs 21:30-31 ESV / 139 helpful votes

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord. The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.

Amos 3:6 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Job 1:12 ESV / 137 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 ESV / 136 helpful votes

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 135 helpful votes

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 133 helpful votes

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Matthew 10:29 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Philippians 1:29 ESV / 132 helpful votes

For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 130 helpful votes

And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 129 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Job 9:12 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’

Romans 9:19 ESV / 126 helpful votes

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”

Jeremiah 14:22 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

John 19:10-11 ESV / 118 helpful votes

So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

Romans 9:19-21 ESV / 116 helpful votes

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

Colossians 1:17 ESV / 114 helpful votes

And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

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