13 Bible Verses about Authority, Belonging To God

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

And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Behold, he taketh away, who can 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, even that he doeth.

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth 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 heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: