The Biblical case for God’s sovereignty over man’s will
Most professing Christians would agree that God is sovereign. What they mean by that, however, can vary.
Some say God is sovereign in that He ordains and controls everything — all space, time and matter, every atom in the universe, and every second of history — whether by active intervention or choosing not to stop something. This includes control over the will of men, which God can override whenever He chooses.
Others limit the term to less than that. They say God is sovereign in the way that an earthly king is sovereign: He gives laws that we must obey. He is the highest authority. God’s in charge but not in control, as Bethel’s Bill Johnson has said.
Those people insist that man has free will, that even if God could control our will, He doesn’t.
This will not be a deep dive into the issue of free will, nor is it specifically about soteriology. Instead, the rest of this page will simply be a list of Biblical examples of God exercising His absolute power, most of them in a way that influenced or controlled the lives, will and/or actions of men.
For the sake of structure, so that every sentence starts with God, each instance is a close paraphrase of Scripture, using the Legacy Standard Bible. Where a line says “God determined” or “God was behind,” that means the text said something was “from God” or “of God,” or indicated that a certain course of action was purposeful (“so that”).
This list of hundreds of references is not comprehensive — I’m sure I missed many — but you’ll see that it’s an overwhelming case that God not only can but does exercise control of whatever, and whomever, He wants.
The list is in Biblical order, but I’ll pull out a couple to lead with because they sum up all the others:
God does whatever He pleases in heaven and on earth (Psalm 135:5).
God works all things according to the counsel of His will (Ephesians 1:11).
Here are many, many ways He’s done that:
The Pentateuch
God held Abimelech back from sinning with Sarah (Genesis 20:6).
God sent a terror upon cities around Jacob, so that they did not pursue his sons (Genesis 35:5).
God caused all that Joseph did in Potiphar’s house to succeed (Genesis 39:3).
God, not his brothers, sent Joseph to Egypt (Genesis 45:5, 8).
God brought Jacob back up from Egypt (Genesis 46:4).
God meant the evil of Joseph’s brothers for good, in order to save many lives (Genesis 50:20).
God gave the Israelites favor with the Egyptians (Exodus 3:21, 11:3, 12:36).
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart (Exodus 7:3, 13, 22; 9:12; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8).
God raised up Pharaoh and caused him to stand (Exodus 9:16, Romans 9:17).
God hardened the Egyptians’ hearts to go after the Israelites (Exodus 14:17).
God brought the Egyptians to confusion (Exodus 14:24).
God made all of Israel’s enemies turn their backs to them (Exodus 23:27).
God drove out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (Exodus 34:11).
God gave the Canaanites over to the Israelites (Numbers 21:3).
God gave Og king of Bashan, his people and his land into the Israelites’ hand (Numbers 21:34, Deuteronomy 3:2).
God gave the land over before the Israelites (Deuteronomy 1:8).
God put the fear of the Israelites upon the peoples everywhere (Deuteronomy 2:25, 11:25).
God stiffened Sihon king of Heshbon’s spirit and made his heart obstinate in order to give him into the Israelites’ hand (Deuteronomy 2:30).
God dispossessed nations greater and mightier than Israel (Deuteronomy 4:38, 7:1, 9:1).
God gave the Canaanite nations over before the Israelites and threw them into confusion (Deuteronomy 7:23).
God gave the Israelites power to make wealth (Deuteronomy 8:18).
God gives a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear (Deuteronomy 29:4).
God separated the sons of man and set the boundaries of the peoples (Deuteronomy 32:8).
The historical books
God gave the Israelites the land (Joshua 2:9).
God gave the Israelites Jericho (Joshua 6:16).
God gave the Israelites into the hand of the Amorites (Joshua 7:7).
God gave the kings of the Amorites into the Israelites’ hands (Joshua 10:8).
God gave the five kings of Makkedah into Joshua’s hand (Joshua 10:19).
God gave Libnah and its king into the hands of Israel (Joshua 10:30).
God gave Lachish into the hands of Israel (Joshua 10:32).
God fought for Israel, resulting in Joshua capturing kings and their lands (Joshua 10:42).
God gave many kings and armies into the hand of Israel (Joshua 11:6-8).
God strengthened the Hivites’ hearts to meet Israel in battle so that Joshua would destroy them (Joshua 11:20).
God gave all of Israel’s enemies into their hand (Joshua 21:44, 24:11).
God did not dispossess the remaining nations in Canaan, in order to test Israel (Judges 2:21-23, 3:1-4).
God strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel (Judges 3:12).
God sold the Israelites into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan (Judges 4:2).
God gave the camp of the Midianites into the hands of Gideon (who was vastly outnumbered) (Judges 7:9).
God set the swords of the Midianites against each other (Judges 7:22).
God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem (Judges 9:23).
God determined Samson’s marriage to a Philistine woman, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines (Judges 14:4).
God defeated Benjamin before Israel (Judges 20:35).
God was behind Eli’s sons not obeying their father, for He desired to put them to death (1 Samuel 2:25).
God was pleased to make a people for Himself (1 Samuel 12:22).
God is not restrained to save by many or by few (1 Samuel 14:6).
God granted victory to David wherever he went (2 Samuel 8:6, 14, 1 Chronicles 18:6, 13).
God ordained to thwart the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Samuel 17:14).
God brought about a great salvation against the Philistines (2 Samuel 23:10, 12).
God, through Satan, incited David to number Israel and Judah (2 Samuel 24:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1)
God raised up adversaries to Solomon — Hadad and Rezon (1 Kings 11:14, 23).
God was behind King Rehoboam not listening to the people, that He might establish His word (1 Kings 12:15, 2 Chronicles 10:15).
God determined Israel’s rebellion against Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:24, 2 Chronicles 11:4).
God made Jeroboam ruler over Israel (1 Kings 16:2).
God delivered the Arameans into Ahab’s hand (1 Kings 20:13).
God put a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets (1 Kings 22:23, 2 Chronicles 18:22).
God caused the Arameans to hear a sound of chariots and horses (2 Kings 7:6).
God put a spirit in Sennacherib so he would hear a report and return to his own land, and make him fall by the sword (2 Kings 19:7, Isaiah 37:7).
God brought to pass Sennacherib’s conquests, which He formed from days of old (2 Kings 19:25, Isaiah 37:26).
God turned Sennacherib back by the way which he came (2 Kings 19:28, Isaiah 37:29).
God brought a remnant out of Jerusalem, and survivors out of Mount Zion (2 Kings 19:31, Isaiah 37:32).
God sent marauding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah (2 Kings 24:2).
God stirred up the spirit of the kings of Assyria to take the Reubenites, Gadites and half-tribe of Manasseh into exile (1 Chronicles 5:26).
God’s hand makes great and strengthens everyone (1 Chronicles 29:12).
God brought Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem because Judah had been unfaithful to God (2 Chronicles 12:2).
God gave King Asa rest from war (2 Chronicles 14:6).
God is ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations (2 Chronicles 20:6).
God owns the battle (2 Chronicles 20:15).
God stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs against King Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:16).
God determined the downfall of King Ahaziah (2 Chronicles 22:7).
God gave the great military force of Judah into the hands of the Arameans, who had a small number of men (2 Chronicles 24:24).
God has power to help and to cause to stumble (2 Chronicles 25:8).
God was behind King Amaziah not listening to King Joash, to give Judah into Joash’s hand (2 Chronicles 25:20).
God gave Judah into the hand of the sons of Israel (2 Chronicles 28:9).
God gave Judah one heart to do what King Hezekiah commanded (2 Chronicles 30:12).
God saved Hezekiah and Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib (2 Chronicles 32:22).
God brought the king of the Chaldeans against Judah and gave them all into his hand (2 Chronicles 36:17).
God stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia (2 Chronicles 36:22, Ezra 1:1).
God gave Cyrus all the kingdoms of the earth and appointed him to build Him a house in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 36:23, Ezra 1:2).
God stirred the spirit of those who went up to Jerusalem to rebuild the house of the Lord (Ezra 1:5).
God gave the Israelites into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar (Ezra 5:12).
God caused the sons of Israel to be glad and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen them (Ezra 6:22).
God’s hand was on Ezra, therefore King Artaxerxes granted him all that he requested (Ezra 7:6).
God put it on Artaxerxes’ heart to beautify the house of the Lord (Ezra 7:27).
God delivered Ezra, the priests and the Levites from their enemies on their way to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:31).
God’s hand was on Nehemiah, therefore the king granted what he asked for (Nehemiah 2:8).
God put into Nehemiah’s heart what he would do for Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:12).
God gave Nehemiah success (Nehemiah 2:20).
God thwarted the counsel of the Jews’ enemies (Nehemiah 4:15).
God determined that the wall of Jerusalem would be rebuilt (Nehemiah 6:16).
God put it into Nehemiah’s heart to record the people by genealogies (Nehemiah 7:5).
God gave His people kingdoms and peoples, made their sons as numerous as the stars, and brought them into the land (Nehemiah 9:22-23).
God subdued before His people the inhabitants of the land and gave them into their hand, with their kings and people (Nehemiah 9:24).
God gave His people into the hand of the ones who distressed them (Nehemiah 9:27, 30).
God turned Balaam’s curse into a blessing (Nehemiah 13:2).
The wisdom literature
God’s hand holds the life of every living thing and the breath of all the flesh of man (Job 12:10).
God does what His soul desires (Job 23:13).
God humbles and makes low everyone who is proud (Job 40:12).
God’s purposes cannot be thwarted (Job 42:1).
God restored the fortunes of Job (Job 42:10).
God rules over the nations (Psalm 22:28).
God owns the earth, all its fullness, the world, and those who dwell in it (Psalms 24:1, 50:12, 89:11).
God holds our times in His hand (Psalm 31:15).
God nullifies the counsel of the nations and frustrates the thoughts of the peoples (Psalm 33:10).
God establishes our footsteps (Psalm 37:23).
God dispossessed the nations and planted them (Psalm 44:2).
God appoints desolations in the earth and makes wars to cease (Psalm 46:8-9).
God reigns over the nations (Psalm 47:8).
God creates in us a clean heart and renews a steadfast spirit within us (Psalm 51:10).
God causes His people to see hardship (Psalm 60:3).
God chooses whom He brings near to Him (Psalm 65:4).
God rules by His might forever, and His eyes keep watch on the nations (Psalm 66:7).
God selects appointed times (Psalm 75:2).
God released Israel to the stubbornness of their heart (Psalm 81:12).
God alone is Most High over all the earth (Psalms 83:18, 97:9).
God determined the flourishing of the wicked, and the blossoming of the workers of iniquity, so that they would be destroyed (Psalm 92:7).
God’s kingdom rules over all (Psalm 103:19).
God caused His people to be fruitful and stronger than their adversaries (Psalm 105:24).
God turned the Egyptians’ heart to hate His people (Psalm 105:25).
God does whatever He pleases (Psalm 115:3).
God causes us to understand His law and walk in His commandments (Psalm 119:34-35).
God causes hearts to incline to His testimonies, and eyes to turn away from worthlessness (Psalm 119:36-37).
God gives understanding that we may learn His commandments (Psalm 119:73).
God owns all things as His slaves (Psalm 119:91).
God establishes our steps in His word (Psalm 119:133).
God formed all our days and wrote them in His book (Psalm 139:16).
God made all for Himself, even the wicked for the day of doom (Proverbs 16:4).
God directs a man’s steps even though his heart plans his way (Proverbs 16:9).
God determines every decision of the lot (Proverbs 16:33).
God’s counsel will stand despite the many plans in a man’s heart (Proverbs 19:21).
God determines a man’s steps, so how can he understand his way? (Proverbs 20:24).
God’s hand holds the king’s heart, and He turns it wherever He wishes, like rivers (Proverbs 21:1).
God appoints a time for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
God gives men riches and wealth (Ecclesiastes 5:19).
God makes the day when there is evil as well as the day when there is good (Ecclesiastes 7:14).
God’s hand holds righteous men, wise men, and their service (Ecclesiastes 9:1).
God works all things (Ecclesiastes 11:5).
The prophets
God brought the king of Assyria on King Ahaz and his people (Isaiah 7:17).
God used Assyria as the rod of His anger, by the power of His hand and by His wisdom (Isaiah 10:5-15).
God commanded the Medes as His set apart ones, His mighty warriors (Isaiah 13:3).
God awakened the Medes against Babylon (Isaiah 13:17).
God incited Egyptians against Egyptians, confused their counsel, and delivered them into the hand of the Assyrians (Isaiah 19:2-4).
God mixed within Egypt a spirit of distortion, to lead her astray (Isaiah 19:14).
God reduces rulers to nothing and makes the judges of the earth utterly formless (Isaiah 40:32).
God gives up nations before Him and has dominion over kings (Isaiah 41:2).
God awakened Cyrus from the north (Isaiah 41:25).
God gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers (Isaiah 42:24).
God acts, and who can reverse it? (Isaiah 43:13)
God took hold of Cyrus by his right hand to subdue nations (Isaiah 45:1).
God produces peace and creates calamity (Isaiah 45:7).
God declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done, to establish His purpose and accomplish all His good pleasure (Isaiah 46:10).
God raised up the tribes of Jacob and caused the preserved ones of Israel to return (Isaiah 49:6).
God set Jeremiah apart before he came out of the womb (Jeremiah 1:5).
God uprooted Israel and caused them to return (Jeremiah 12:15).
God caused Jeremiah’s enemy to intercede with him (Jeremiah 15:11).
God had Israel in His hand like clay in the potter’s hand (Jeremiah 18:6).
God gathers the remnant of His flock and causes them to return to their pasture (Jeremiah 23:3).
God, who dispersed Israel, will gather him and keep him (Jeremiah 31:10).
God causes Israel to return to its place and makes them inhabit it in safety (Jeremiah 33:37).
God puts the fear of Him in His people’s hearts so that they will not turn away from Him (Jeremiah 33:40).
God caused the Babylonians to return to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:22).
God sent Nebuchadnezzar and set his throne over Egypt (Jeremiah 43:10).
God gave over Pharaoh Hophra to the hand of his enemies, just as He gave over Zedekiah to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 44:30).
God gave Pharaoh and Egypt into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:26).
God made Moab cease (Jeremiah 48:35).
God will return the fortunes of Moab, the sons of Ammon, and Elam in the last days (Jeremiah 48:47, 49:6, 39).
God aroused an assembly of great nations to bring up against Babylon (Jeremiah 50:9).
God aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes because His purpose was to destroy Babylon (Jeremiah 51:11).
God commanded that the ones round about Jacob should be his adversaries (Lamentations 1:17).
God caused the enemy to be glad over Jerusalem and exalted the might of its adversaries, doing what He purposed (Lamentations 3:17).
God gathered Jerusalem’s lovers against her from all around (Ezekiel 16:37).
God gave judgment to Jerusalem’s lovers (Ezekiel 23:24).
God caused Pharaoh’s multitude to fall (Ezekiel 32:12).
God will gather His sheep from the countries and bring them to their own land (Ezekiel 34:13).
God will cause His people to walk on and possess the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 36:12).
God will cause Israel to walk in His statutes (Ezekiel 37:27).
God will put hooks in Gog’s jaws and bring it out with all its military force against His land (Ezekiel 38:4, 16).
God will turn Gog around, drive it on, take it up, and bring it against the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 39:2).
God gave Jehoiakim into Nebuchadnezzar’s hand (Daniel 1:2).
God removes kings and establishes kings (Daniel 2:21).
God gave the kingdom, power, strength and glory to Nebuchadnezzar and made him rule with power over all (Daniel 2:37-38).
God is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes (Daniel 4:17, 25, 32, 5:21).
God does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth (Daniel 4:35).
God caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease (Hosea 1:4).
God gave Israel a king in His anger and took him away in His wrath (Hosea 13:11).
God sent a great military force among the land of Israel (Joel 2:25).
God will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2).
God destroyed the Amorite before Israel and brought it up from Egypt (Amos 2:9-10).
God brings calamity in a city (Amos 3:6).
God makes a complete destruction of whatever is devised against Him (Nahum 1:9).
God raised up the Chaldeans (Habakkuk 1:6).
God will assemble nations and gather kingdoms to pour out on them His indignation (Zephaniah 3:8).
God stirred up the spirit of Zerubabbel, Joshua, and all the remnant of the people to build the house of the Lord (Haggai 1:14).
God dispossessed Tyre and struck her wealth down into the sea (Zechariah 9:4).
God will raise up a worthless shepherd (Zechariah 11:16).
God will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication so that they will look on Him who they pierced, and they will mourn for Him (Zechariah 12:10).
God will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle (Zechariah 14:2).
God will cause abundant confusion upon all the peoples who will go to war against Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:13).
The gospels and Acts
God determines who knows the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13:11, Mark 4:11, Luke 8:10).
God (Jesus) builds His church (Matthew 16:18, Acts 2:47).
God (Jesus) has all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).
God (Jesus) concealed understanding of Him being delivered into the hands of men (Luke 9:45).
God hides things from the wise and intelligent, and reveals them to “infants” (Luke 10:21).
God reveals the Son to whom the Son wills (Luke 10:22).
God (Jesus) prevented the two disciples from recognizing Him on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:16).
God (Jesus) opened the two disciples’ eyes to recognize Him (Luke 24:31).
God (Jesus) opened His disciples’ minds to understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45).
God (Jesus) gives life to whom He wishes (John 5:21).
God has already given to Jesus those who come to Him (John 6:37-39, 10:29, 17:6, 11, 12, 24).
God determines that all whom He has given Jesus will come to Him (John 6:37).
God wills that all those He has given Jesus will not be lost (John 6:39).
God draws those who come to Jesus (John 6:44).
God grants coming to Jesus (John 6:65).
God determined that no man lay his hand on Jesus, because His hour had not yet come (John 7:30, 8:20).
God (Jesus) commanded a dead man to come forth (John 11:43).
God (Jesus) draws men to Himself (John 12:32).
God blinded the eyes and hardened the heart of the crowd so that they could not believe (John 12:37-40).
God gave Jesus authority over all flesh, so that to all He has given Jesus, He may give eternal life (John 17:2).
God (Jesus) kept and guarded those who God gave Him (John 17:12).
God granted Pontius Pilate authority over Jesus (John 19:11).
God planned to deliver Jesus over for crucifixion (Acts 2:23).
God’s hand and purpose predestined Herod, Pilate, the Gentiles and Israel against Jesus (Acts 4:27-28).
God grants repentance (Acts 5:31, 11:18, 2 Timothy 2:25).
God (Jesus) chose Saul as His instrument (Acts 9:15).
God has already appointed to eternal life those who believe (Acts 13:48).
God opened a door of faith to the Gentiles (Acts 14:27).
God opened Lydia’s heart to pay attention to Paul (Acts 16:14).
God appointed every nation’s times and boundaries (Acts 17:26).
God determined all of what Paul would do (Acts 22:10).
God (Jesus) appointed Paul a minister and a witness to Him (Acts 26:16).
God granted Paul all those who were sailing with him (Acts 27:24).
The epistles
God gives people over to their sinful hearts and minds (Romans 1:24, 26, 28).
God works all things together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).
God predestines those He foreknows to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29).
God’s purpose according to His choice will stand (Romans 9:11).
God’s choice does not depend on human will but on His mercy (Romans 9:16).
God has mercy on whom He desires and hardens whom He desires (Romans 9:18).
God’s irresistible will provokes the complaint that He still finds fault (Romans 9:19).
God, the potter, has authority over the clay to make vessels for honorable use and dishonorable use (Romans 9:21).
God beforehand prepares vessels of wrath for destruction, and vessels of mercy for glory (Romans 9:23).
God left a remnant of Israel according to His gracious choice (Romans 11:5).
God gave Israel a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not (Romans 11:8, Isaiah 29:10).
God darkened Israel’s eyes to see not (Romans 11:10, Psalm 69:23).
God has partially hardened Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in (Romans 11:25).
God has shut up all (Jews and Gentiles) in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all (Romans 11:32).
God is the source, means, purpose and end of all things (Romans 11:36, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:10, Revelation 4:11).
God has appointed all authorities (Romans 13:1).
God made Paul an apostle by His will (1 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:1, Ephesians 1:1, Colossians 1:1, 1 Timothy 1:1, 2 Timothy 1:1).
God chose the foolish, weak, base and despised things of the world, so that no flesh may boast before Him (1 Corinthians 1:26-29).
God made us in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30).
God gives the growth of His church (1 Corinthians 3:6-7, Colossians 2:19).
God distributes the gifts of the Holy Spirit individually as He wills (1 Corinthians 12:11).
God appoints the members of the body just as He desires (1 Corinthians 12:18).
God put earnestness in the heart of Titus (2 Corinthians 8:16).
God set Paul apart from his mother’s womb (Galatians 1:15).
God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).
God predestined us to adoption according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise and glory of His grace (Ephesians 1:5-6).
God made us alive when we were dead in our transgressions (Ephesians 2:5, Colossians 2:13).
God created us, His workmanship, in Christ Jesus for good works, which He prepared beforehand for us to walk in (Ephesians 2:10).
God carried out His eternal purpose in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 3:11).
God will perfect the good work He began in us until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).
God granted belief in Christ and to suffer for His sake (Philippians 1:29).
God works in us to will and to work for His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
God fulfills all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
God holds all things together (Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3).
God destined us for suffering affliction (1 Thessalonians 3:3).
God has not appointed us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
God sends a deluding influence upon those who will perish so that they will believe what is false (2 Thessalonians 2:11).
God chose who would be the first fruits of salvation (2 Thessalonians 2:13).
God directs our hearts into the love of God (2 Thessalonians 3:5).
God showed Paul mercy so that Christ Jesus might demonstrate His patience in him as the foremost (1 Timothy 1:16).
God has given us a spirit of power and love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7).
God has saved us according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity (2 Timothy 1:9).
God purifies for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good works (Titus 2:14).
God (Jesus) is the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 11:2).
God chose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom (James 2:5).
God's will is the determining factor of what we do (James 4:15).
God causes us to be born again according to His great mercy (1 Peter 1:3).
God protects us by His power through faith for salvation (1 Peter 1:5).
God may will that we suffer for doing good (1 Peter 3:17, 4:19).
God wills for all of us to come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9).
God loved us first so that we love (1 John 4:19).
God (Jesus) keeps those who are born of God (1 John 5:18).
God keeps the called for Jesus Christ (Jude 1).
God is able to keep us from stumbling (Jude 24).
God will give the power to take peace from the earth, that men would slay one another (Revelation 6:4).
God will give authority to kill with sword, famine and pestilence (Revelation 6:8).
God will give the temple court to the Gentiles, to trample Jerusalem for 42 months (Revelation 11:2).
God will give the beast authority to act for 42 months, to overcome the saints, and authority over every nation (Revelation 13:5-7).
God wrote the names of the saints in the book of life from the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8, 17:8).
God will give it in the hearts of the ten kings to do His purpose by giving their kingdom to the beast (Revelation 17:17).
God makes all things new (Revelation 21:5).
