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:

Exodus 8:2KJV

And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

Exodus 3:19KJV

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.

1 Samuel 17:47KJV

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.

Isaiah 10:15KJV

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Psalms 107:42KJV

I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

Psalms 57:9KJV

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.

Judges 6:11KJV

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

Psalms 107:40KJV

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Numbers 20:13KJV

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.

Isaiah 57:19KJV

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.

Isaiah 1:1KJV

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.

Psalms 84:3KJV

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

Psalms 22:27KJV

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!

Isaiah 18:2KJV

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.

Judges 9:5KJV

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.

Isaiah 63:16KJV

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Isaiah 33:17KJV

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,

Genesis 25:13KJV

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.

Isaiah 53:6KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 6:23KJV

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Isaiah 9:8KJV

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.

2 Samuel 5:12KJV

Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.

Psalms 20:9KJV

And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

Exodus 33:23KJV

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Psalms 105:28KJV

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

Isaiah 40:25KJV

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

Psalms 31:6KJV

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

Psalms 49:7KJV

He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

Psalms 105:26KJV

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.

Jeremiah 2:28KJV

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

Psalms 9:1KJV

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

Jeremiah 1:19KJV

Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

Psalms 148:7KJV

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:38KJV

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord.

Numbers 14:21KJV

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Psalms 136:23KJV

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?

Isaiah 40:12KJV

And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:11KJV

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.

Jeremiah 6:12KJV

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41:25KJV

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 41:21KJV

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.

Esther 6:11KJV

Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

Numbers 2:14KJV

That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

1 Kings 8:60KJV

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.

Jeremiah 10:16KJV

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Psalms 147:8KJV

But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.

2 Samuel 23:12KJV

This day came ye out in the month Abib.

Exodus 13:4KJV

And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

Psalms 45:12KJV

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:

Deuteronomy 7:2KJV

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.

1 Kings 2:4KJV

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Psalms 90:7KJV

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Psalms 123:1KJV

For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

Psalms 135:4KJV

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.

2 Samuel 22:3KJV

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Psalms 77:19KJV

Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.

Psalms 68:29KJV

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 27:8KJV

He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

Psalms 105:34KJV

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

2 Samuel 22:46KJV

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.

Jeremiah 5:10KJV

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Psalms 80:4KJV

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:26KJV

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.

Isaiah 5:24KJV

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

Psalms 90:16KJV

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Psalms 12:3KJV

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah 1:27KJV

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

Psalms 102:13KJV

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:

Isaiah 45:2KJV

Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;

1 Kings 8:41KJV

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

Psalms 150:1KJV

Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:25KJV

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Esther 4:6KJV

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.

Isaiah 17:14KJV

I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

Isaiah 13:3KJV

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:14KJV

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.

Isaiah 28:2KJV

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Isaiah 8:13KJV

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.

Isaiah 7:2KJV

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Psalms 12:1KJV

Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Psalms 28:5KJV

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Deuteronomy 16:21KJV

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,

Nehemiah 1:4KJV

It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Psalms 119:126KJV

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.

Exodus 12:12KJV

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Psalms 29:6KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 6:1KJV

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.

Psalms 93:1KJV

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.

Exodus 7:17KJV

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.

Isaiah 47:6KJV

For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 52:4KJV

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.

Isaiah 52:5KJV

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.

1 Samuel 5:7KJV

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.

Exodus 8:22KJV

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Psalms 77:9KJV

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Isaiah 51:2KJV

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

Psalms 18:27KJV

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?

Exodus 2:7KJV

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.

Isaiah 66:23KJV

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.

Isaiah 11:10KJV

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.