Bible Verses About God's Control

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;

For the kingdom is the Lord’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

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

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

And said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.