• Deuteronomy 8:2-6
  And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
   
• Romans 9:14-23
  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.' Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?" But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,
   
• Romans 13:1-7
  Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience' sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
   
• Isaiah 46:10-11
  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,’
  Calling a bird of prey from the east,
  The man who executes My counsel, from a far country.
  Indeed I have spoken it;
  I will also bring it to pass.
  I have purposed it;
  I will also do it.
  
   
• Matthew 10:29-31
  Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
   
• Romans 9:10-12
  And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger."
   
• 1 Corinthians 1:26-29
  For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
   
• Deuteronomy 3:23-24
  “Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying: ‘O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?
   
• 1 Kings 22:19-22
  Then Micaiah said, 'Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left. And the LORD said, ‘Who will persuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ The LORD said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the LORD said, ‘You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.’
   
• Job 23:13-14
  "But He is unique, and who can make Him change?
  And whatever His soul desires, that He does. For He performs what is appointed for me,
  And many such things are with Him.
   
• Psalm 2:1-5
  Why do the nations rage,
  And the people plot a vain thing?
  The kings of the earth set themselves,
  And the rulers take counsel together,
  Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,
  “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
  And cast away Their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
  The Lord shall hold them in derision.
  Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
  And distress them in His deep displeasure:
  
   
• Daniel 4:34-35
  And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever:
  For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
  And His kingdom is from generation to generation.
  All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing;
  He does according to His will in the army of heaven
  And among the inhabitants of the earth.
  No one can restrain His hand
  Or say to Him, “What have You done?”
   
• Matthew 8:25-26
  Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
   
• Mark 4:39-41
  Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, "Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?" And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"
   
• Revelation 20:1-3
  Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
   
• Genesis 15:12-18
  Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces. On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—
   

Related Scriptures

• Romans 8:28
  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
   
• Genesis 1:26-27
  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:1
  “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers.
   
• Psalm 139:16
  Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
  And in Your book they all were written,
  The days fashioned for me,
  When as yet there were none of them.
   
• Hebrews 4:13
  And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
   
• Isaiah 46:9
  Remember the former things of old,
  For I am God, and there is no other;
  I am God, and there is none like Me,
  
   
• John 15:5
  "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
   
• Ephesians 1:11
  In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
   
• Leviticus 18:24
  "Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
   
• Isaiah 40:17-18
  All nations before Him are as nothing,
  And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
  To whom then will you liken God?
  Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
  
   
• Lamentations 2:1-4
  How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
  With a cloud in His anger!
  He cast down from heaven to the earth
  The beauty of Israel,
  And did not remember His footstool
  In the day of His anger.
  The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied
  All the dwelling places of Jacob.
  He has thrown down in His wrath
  The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
  He has brought them down to the ground;
  He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
  He has cut off in fierce anger
  Every horn of Israel;
  He has drawn back His right hand
  From before the enemy.
  He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
  Devouring all around.
  Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
  With His right hand, like an adversary,
  He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;
  On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
  He has poured out His fury like fire.
  
   
• Acts 15:18
  "Known to God from eternity are all His works.
   
• Romans 12:3
  For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
   
• Romans 12:19
  Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.