Sovereignty

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. — read the full passage →

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; — read the full passage →

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me; — read the full passage →

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →

Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. — read the full passage →

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together — read the full passage →

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

He said, “For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked? — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God’s house, the God of Israel.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. — read the full passage →

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me; — read the full passage →

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? — read the full passage →

Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. — read the full passage →

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?” — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding. — read the full passage →

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and it is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all.