17 Bible Verses about autonomy

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

A fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; for iron crushes and shatters everything, and like iron that smashes, it will crush and smash all the others.

The one who trusts in himself is a fool,
but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.

I form light and create darkness,
I make success and create disaster;
I, Yahweh, do all these things.

He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

My brothers, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

the Lord appeared to him from far away.
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.

who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.

So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars on her head.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have first place among them, does not receive us.

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity.

Indeed, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save,
and His ear is not too deaf to hear.

He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.