15 Bible Verses about God Has Authority Over Nations

Romans 13:1 ESV / 9 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.

Psalm 22:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

Daniel 2:21 ESV / 6 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;

Daniel 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’

Psalm 82:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!

Psalm 47:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.

Psalm 33:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Revelation 1:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Acts 17:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Jeremiah 27:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.

Isaiah 40:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

Psalm 103:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

Psalm 67:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah

Job 12:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.

Deuteronomy 32:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.

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