Our God is in heaven; He does as He pleases.

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me. I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

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

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.

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

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.

“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?” But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”

But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and came to be.”

Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.

For no word from God will ever fail.”

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed. They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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

This decision is the decree of the watchers, the verdict declared by the holy ones, so that the living will know that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes, setting over it the lowliest of men.’

Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His. What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

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

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God. Consequently, whoever resists authority is opposing what God has set in place, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval. For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer. Therefore it is necessary to submit to authority, not only to avoid punishment, but also as a matter of conscience. . . .

Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.

Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His. What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.