Scriptures to support the sovereign will of God

Definition for the sovereignty of God - God plans and carries out His perfect will as He alone knows is best, over all that is in heaven and earth, and He does so without failure or defeat.

Check this verses out and see if they are consistent with this definition. Once you build this healthy Biblical category in your Bible reading you will see the sovereignty of God everywhere!

Psa. 115:3 But our God is in the heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.

Psa. 33:10 The LORD nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
Psa. 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart from generation to generation.

Is. 46:9 “Remember the former things long past,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
Is. 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’;

Dan. 4:34 ¶ “But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason 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 endures from generation to generation.
Dan. 4:35 “All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

Job 42:2 “I know that You can do all things,
And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.

Acts 2:23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

Acts 4:27 “For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Acts 4:28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

Prov. 21:1 ¶ The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD;
He turns it wherever He wishes.

Ezra 6:22 And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Rom. 11:25 ¶ For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
Rom. 11:26 and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
“THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION,
HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.”

Psa. 135:5 ¶ For I know that the LORD is great
And that our Lord is above all gods.
Psa. 135:6 Whatever the LORD pleases, He does,
In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
Psa. 135:7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightnings for the rain,
Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Prov. 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the LORD.

Matt. 10:29 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.