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God Is In Control
Romans 8:28 ESV / 4,899 helpful votes
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 4,764 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 4,479 helpful votes
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 3,462 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3,398 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Joshua 1:9 ESV / 3,338 helpful votes
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 3,233 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Matthew 6:34 ESV / 3,136 helpful votes
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 2,926 helpful votes
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Psalm 27:1 ESV / 2,837 helpful votes
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Matthew 19:26 ESV / 2,724 helpful votes
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Psalm 115:3 ESV / 2,724 helpful votes
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
Isaiah 14:24 ESV / 2,563 helpful votes
The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,
Isaiah 45:6-7 ESV / 2,484 helpful votes
That people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Proverbs 21:1 ESV / 2,473 helpful votes
The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.
Psalm 94:19 ESV / 2,429 helpful votes
When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 2,399 helpful votes
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2,385 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2,383 helpful votes
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Psalm 46:1 ESV / 2,379 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
John 14:27 ESV / 2,357 helpful votes
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Psalm 22:28 ESV / 2,269 helpful votes
For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.
Job 12:10 ESV / 2,092 helpful votes
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 2,060 helpful votes
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Luke 12:22-26 ESV / 2,046 helpful votes
And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?
Isaiah 55:8-11 ESV / 2,000 helpful votes
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 1,863 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 John 4:18 ESV / 1,745 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
Psalm 23:4 ESV / 1,724 helpful votes
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
1 Chronicles 29:11-12 ESV / 1,697 helpful votes
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
Psalm 118:6-7 ESV / 1,662 helpful votes
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.
Revelation 1:17 ESV / 1,618 helpful votes
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
Psalm 55:22 ESV / 1,588 helpful votes
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 56:3 ESV / 1,582 helpful votes
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.
Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 1,510 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …
Psalm 103:19 ESV / 1,486 helpful votes
The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.
Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,468 helpful votes
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
Job 42:2 ESV / 1,443 helpful votes
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV / 1,440 helpful votes
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
1 Timothy 6:15 ESV / 1,434 helpful votes
Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 1,429 helpful votes
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
2 Chronicles 20:6 ESV / 1,421 helpful votes
And said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
Genesis 50:20 ESV / 1,414 helpful votes
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
John 16:33 ESV / 1,404 helpful votes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Daniel 4:35 ESV / 1,388 helpful votes
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
Psalm 135:6 ESV / 1,344 helpful votes
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
Psalm 46:10 ESV / 1,323 helpful votes
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 1,303 helpful votes
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 1,302 helpful votes
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Isaiah 14:27 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes
For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
Isaiah 43:1 ESV / 1,282 helpful votes
But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
Matthew 10:29 ESV / 1,275 helpful votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1,262 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 34:7 ESV / 1,237 helpful votes
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 1,236 helpful votes
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Lamentations 3:37 ESV / 1,225 helpful votes
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
Isaiah 35:4 ESV / 1,208 helpful votes
Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”
Mark 6:50 ESV / 1,196 helpful votes
For they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”
Psalm 34:4 ESV / 1,193 helpful votes
I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Amos 3:6 ESV / 1,183 helpful votes
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
Psalm 24:1 ESV / 1,180 helpful votes
A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
Daniel 2:21 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes
He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
1 Chronicles 29:11 ESV / 1,170 helpful votes
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1,157 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 1,146 helpful votes
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Mark 5:36 ESV / 1,132 helpful votes
But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 1,111 helpful votes
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
Proverbs 16:33 ESV / 1,087 helpful votes
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.
Isaiah 41:2 ESV / 1,082 helpful votes
Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.
2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 1,060 helpful votes
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
Isaiah 43:9 ESV / 1,055 helpful votes
All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
John 14:5 ESV / 1,038 helpful votes
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
Psalm 66:7 ESV / 1,029 helpful votes
Who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Psalm 91:4 ESV / 1,022 helpful votes
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
Romans 13:1 ESV / 954 helpful votes
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Ephesians 1:11-12 ESV / 950 helpful votes
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
Revelation 1:8 ESV / 898 helpful votes
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 858 helpful votes
Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 838 helpful votes
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Zechariah 4:6 ESV / 836 helpful votes
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Psalm 27:14 ESV / 832 helpful votes
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 823 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
John 13:7 ESV / 777 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 758 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 755 helpful votes
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …
John 6:37 ESV / 751 helpful votes
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Matthew 6:12 ESV / 741 helpful votes
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 733 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 724 helpful votes
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …
John 3:16-17 ESV / 666 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Hebrews 11:3 ESV / 621 helpful votes
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
John 19:11 ESV / 620 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 583 helpful votes
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Romans 9:21 ESV / 504 helpful votes
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
Jonah 1:4 ESV / 502 helpful votes
But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.
2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 475 helpful votes
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Genesis 8:22 ESV / 462 helpful votes
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Isaiah 8:1-22 ESV / 460 helpful votes
Then the Lord said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’ And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.” And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.” The Lord spoke to me again: …
Proverbs 25:28 ESV / 428 helpful votes
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
James 1:13 ESV / 410 helpful votes
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
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