7 Bible Verses about autonomy

I am persuaded, my Brothers--yes, I Paul, with regard to you- that you are yourselves full of kindness, furnished with all Christian learning, and well able to give advice to one another.

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,

Then a great portent was seen in the heavens--a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip: "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"

And he it is who gave to the Church Apostles, Prophets, Missionaries, Pastors, and Teachers,

I wrote a few lines to the Church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, declines to recognize us.

"Take him yourselves," said Pilate, "and try him by your own Law." "We have no power to put any one to death," the Jews replied- -