13 Bible Verses about Authority, Belonging To God

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he pleased.

and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none can withstand thee.

Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

I know that thou canst do everything, and that thou canst be hindered in no thought of thine.

Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps;

For Jehovah of hosts hath purposed, and who shall frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Yea, since the day was, I am HE, and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose? Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,