100 Bible Verses About God's Sovereignty
Bible verses about God's Sovereignty
Delve into the profound truth of God's Sovereignty through these scriptures and discover the unshakable foundation upon which your faith rests. Understanding God's ultimate authority is not merely an intellectual exercise, but a transformative journey into the heart of peace and trust. In acknowledging His complete control, we release our anxieties, knowing that every detail of our lives is held within His loving and capable hands. These verses offer comfort, strength, and a deeper understanding of God's character, reminding us that even in the midst of uncertainty, His purpose prevails, and His love endures forever.
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Isaiah 5:24 (KJV)
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
God's Sovereignty: Bible Verses Exploring His Supreme Power
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.
The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.
So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,
It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Understanding God's sovereignty, as illuminated by these verses, offers profound comfort and perspective. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture consistently portrays God as the ultimate authority, working all things according to His perfect will. This truth isn't meant to stifle faith or encourage fatalism, but rather to inspire trust in a God whose understanding surpasses our own. Meditating on these verses encourages us to release our anxieties, knowing that even amidst chaos and uncertainty, God remains in control. Let us strive to align our hearts and actions with His purposes, seeking His wisdom and trusting in His unwavering plan. Recognizing His sovereignty empowers us to face life's challenges with courage, knowing we are held securely in the hands of a loving and all-powerful God. Embrace this truth and live with unwavering faith in His divine orchestration.