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30 Bible Verse About God Being In Control

  1. Job 42:2 (NIV)

    “I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

  2. Isaiah 46:10-11 (NIV)

    *”I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.”

  3. Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)

    “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”

  4. Psalm 115:3 (NIV)

    “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.”

  5. Psalm 33:11 (NIV)

    “But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.”

  6. Isaiah 14:27 (NIV)

    “For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

  7. Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)

    “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”

  8. Daniel 4:35 (NIV)

    “All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: ‘What have you done?'”

  9. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

    “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

  10. Ephesians 1:11 (NIV)

    “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”

  11. Romans 8:28 (NIV)

    “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

  12. Psalm 33:10-11 (NIV)

    “The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.”

  13. Isaiah 55:11 (NIV)

    “So is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

  14. James 4:15 (NIV)

    “Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.'”

  15. Psalm 135:6 (NIV)

    “The Lord does whatever pleases him, in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.”

  16. Proverbs 16:4 (NIV)

    “The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.”

  17. Psalm 139:16 (NIV)

    “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

  18. Lamentations 3:37 (NIV)

    “Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?”

  19. Isaiah 40:28 (NIV)

    “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

  20. Proverbs 21:1 (NIV)

    “In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him.”

  21. 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 (NIV)

    “Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.”

  22. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV)

    “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”

  23. Psalm 37:23 (NIV)

    “The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him.”

  24. Job 12:10 (NIV)

    “In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

  25. Matthew 6:26 (NIV)

    “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

  26. Isaiah 45:7 (NIV)

    “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.”

  27. Psalm 115:3 (NIV)

    “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.”

  28. Acts 17:26 (NIV)

    “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.”

  29. Hebrews 11:3 (NIV)

    “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

  30. Isaiah 45:9 (NIV)

    “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?”