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The sovereignty of God is one of the most awe-inspiring and foundational truths of Scripture. It means that God, as the Creator and Sustainer of all things, exercises supreme authority over the entire universe. Nothing happens outside of His eternal decree, for He works all things according to the counsel of His will (Ephesians 1:11). His sovereignty extends over creation, providence, and redemption, accomplishing His perfect purposes for His own glory.

Throughout Scripture, we see God’s absolute rule, unshakable power, and unwavering faithfulness. His sovereign will is not contingent upon human actions, nor can His purposes be thwarted (Job 42:2; Isaiah 46:9–10). Even in suffering and trials, we can rest in the assurance that He ordains all things for the good of His people and the exaltation of His name (Romans 8:28; Genesis 50:20). His sovereignty is not cold determinism but is governed by His perfect wisdom, justice, and covenantal love.

These verses shows God’s sovereign rule. Meditating on these passages will deepen our trust in His providence, reminding us that He alone is the King of kings, and His purposes will always stand.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Verses

  • Genesis 50:20: As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

  • Psalm 24:1: The LORD owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

  • Psalm 33:10-11: The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples. The LORD's decisions stand forever; his plans abide throughout the ages.

  • Psalm 71:16: I will come and tell about the mighty acts of the sovereign LORD. I will proclaim your justice - yours alone.

  • Psalm 103:19: The LORD has established his throne in heaven; his kingdom extends over everything.

  • Psalm 115:3: Our God is in heaven! He does whatever he pleases!

  • Psalm 121:2: My help comes from the LORD, the Creator of heaven and earth!

  • Psalm 135:6-7: He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths. He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Proverbs 16:1: The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the LORD.

  • Proverbs 16:4: The LORD works everything for its own ends - even the wicked for the day of disaster.

  • Proverbs 16:9: A person plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

  • Proverbs 16:33: The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the LORD.

  • Proverbs 19:21: There are many plans in a person's mind, but it is the counsel of the LORD which will stand.

  • Proverbs 20:24: The steps of a person are ordained by the LORD - so how can anyone understand his own way?

  • Proverbs 21:1: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

  • Proverbs 21:30: There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the LORD.

  • Isaiah 14:24: The LORD who commands armies makes this solemn vow: "Be sure of this: Just as I have intended, so it will be; just as I have planned, it will happen.

  • Isaiah 14:27: Indeed, the LORD who commands armies has a plan, and who can possibly frustrate it? His hand is ready to strike, and who can possibly stop it?

  • Isaiah 40:22-23: He is the one who sits on the earth's horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent. He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth's leaders insignificant.

  • Isaiah 45:7-9: 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. O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it. One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

  • Isaiah 46:9-10: Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me, who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, 'My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,'

  • Job 12:13-14: "With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his. If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

  • Job 23:13: But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

  • Job 42:2: "I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

  • Daniel 4:35: All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him, 'What have you done?'

  • Daniel 7:13-14: I was watching in the night visions, "And with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man was approaching. He went up to the Ancient of Days and was escorted before him. To him was given ruling authority, honor, and sovereignty. All peoples, nations, and language groups were serving him. His authority is eternal and will not pass away. His kingdom will not be destroyed.

  • Deuteronomy 4:39: Today realize and carefully consider that the LORD is God in heaven above and on earth below - there is no other!

  • Deuteronomy 32:39: "See now that I, indeed I, am he!" says the LORD, "and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:31: Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the nations say, 'The LORD reigns!'

  • 1 Chronicles 29:11-12: O LORD, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all. You are the source of wealth and honor; you rule over all. You possess strength and might to magnify and give strength to all.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:6: He prayed: "O LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.

  • Ezra 6:22: They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the LORD had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

  • Lamentations 3:37-39: Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes - both calamity and blessing? Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

  • Jeremiah 10:23: LORD, we know that people do not control their own destiny. It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.

  • Jeremiah 14:22: Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this."

  • Jeremiah 32:17: 'Oh, Lord God, you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength. Nothing is too hard for you!

  • 1 Samuel 2:10: The LORD shatters his adversaries; he thunders against them from the heavens. The LORD executes judgment to the ends of the earth. He will strengthen his king and exalt the power of his anointed one."

  • Matthew 8:27: And the men were amazed and said, "What sort of person is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!"

  • Matthew 10:29-31: Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will. Even all the hairs on your head are numbered. So do not be afraid; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

  • Matthew 28:18: Then Jesus came up and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

  • John 5:26-27: For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself, and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

  • John 10:18: No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

  • John 17:2: just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

  • Acts 2:22-23: "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know - this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.

  • Acts 4:25-28: who said by the Holy Spirit through your servant David our forefather, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot foolish things? The kings of the earth stood together, and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord and against his Christ.' "For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

  • Acts 10:42: He commanded us to preach to the people and to warn them that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.

  • Acts 17:26: From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

  • Romans 8:28: And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

  • Romans 9:11: even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) -

  • Romans 9:18: So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

  • Romans 9:20-21: But who indeed are you - a mere human being - to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?" Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?

  • Romans 11:36: For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

  • Romans 13:1: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God's appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:27: For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says "everything" has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

  • Ephesians 1:11-12: In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, would be to the praise of his glory.

  • Ephesians 1:4-6: For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love. He did this by predestining us to adoption as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will - to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

  • Colossians 1:16-17: for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him - all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers - all things were created through him and for him. He himself is before all things and all things are held together in him.

  • Philippians 2:9-11: As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow - in heaven and on earth and under the earth - and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

  • Hebrews 4:13: And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

  • James 4:13-15: Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit." You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes. You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."

  • 1 Timothy 6:15: - whose appearing the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, will reveal at the right time.

  • Revelation 1:5: and from Jesus Christ - the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

  • Revelation 4:11: "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!"

  • Revelation 15:3: They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: "Great and astounding are your deeds, Lord God, the All-Powerful! Just and true are your ways, King over the nations!

  • Revelation 20:11: Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

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