17 Bible Verses about autonomy

Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever--"

And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.

He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.

the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."

"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.

Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;