17 Bible Verses about autonomy

And the Lord God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals, so it will break in pieces and crush the others.

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.

When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

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

In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.

Pilate told them, "Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!" The Jewish leaders replied, "We cannot legally put anyone to death."

"Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Look, the Lord's hand is not too weak to deliver you; his ear is not too deaf to hear you.

he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.