7 Bible Verses about autonomy

As far as I am concerned about you, my brothers, I am convinced that you especially are abounding in the highest goodness, richly supplied with perfect knowledge and competent to counsel one another.

Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped,

Then a great symbol was seen in heaven -- a woman clothed in the sun with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,

I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to be first among them, refuses to listen to me.

Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and try Him in accordance with your own law." Then the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to execute the death penalty on anyone."