24 Bible Verses about God Being In Control

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.

We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the Evil One.

All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

Since our Life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.

To be earthly-minded means Death, to be spiritually minded means Life and Peace;

If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God?

For, if we were "beside ourselves," it was in God's service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!

Let the Peace that the Christ gives decide all doubts within your hearts; for you also were called to the enjoyment of peace as members of one Body. And show yourselves thankful.

No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison!

Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

(The spirit that moves the preachers is within the preachers' control;

While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;

There is but one God and Father of all--the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.

They who are earthly cannot please God.

Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

But, if you follow the guidance of the Spirit, you are not subject to Law.

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.

who has gone into Heaven, and is at God's right hand, where Angels and Archangels and the Powers of Heaven now yield submission to him.

But the words of Scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, upon faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

Let every one obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.