13 Bible Verses about Authority, Belonging To God
Most Relevant Verses
Our God is in heaven
and does whatever He pleases.
He said:
Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
If He snatches something, who can stop Him?
Who can ask Him, “What are You doing?”
But He is unchangeable; who can oppose Him?
He does what He desires.
Yahweh does whatever He pleases
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all the depths.
The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it;
therefore, who can stand in its way?
It is His hand that is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?
Also, from today on I am He alone,
and none can deliver from My hand.
I act, and who can reverse it?”
“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
I declare the end from the beginning,
and from long ago what is not yet done,
saying: My plan will take place,
and I will do all My will.
All the inhabitants of the earth are counted as nothing,
and He does what He wants with the army of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can hold back His hand
or say to Him, “What have You done?”
You will say to me, therefore, “Why then does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?
We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,
