13 Bible Verses about Authority, Belonging To God
Most Relevant Verses
Our God is in heaven. He does whatever he pleases.
He prayed aloud: O Jehovah, God of our ancestors, you rule in heaven over all the nations of the world. You are powerful and mighty. No one can oppose you.
He takes away and who can hinder God? Who can say to God: 'What are you doing?'
But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? He does what he wants to do.
Everything Jehovah desires he does in the heavens and in earth, and in the seas and all deep places.
Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.
From the beginning I was the one who did this. No one can rescue people from my power. When I do something, who can undo it?
Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: 'My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.'
All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: 'What do you do?'
You say to me: Why does he yet find fault? Who resists his purpose (will)? Yes, but you, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why have you made me this way? (Isaiah 45:9) Or does the potter not have authority over the clay? Can he make out of the same lump one vessel to honor, and another for common use? (Jeremiah 18:6)
We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.
