John 6:38

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
  • John 5:30 : 30 `I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
  • John 3:13 : 13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
  • John 3:31 : 31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.
  • Isa 53:10 : 10 And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.
  • John 6:33 : 33 for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
  • Eph 4:9 : 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?
  • Phil 2:7-8 : 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
  • Heb 5:8 : 8 through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,
  • Heb 10:7-9 : 7 then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' 8 saying above -- `Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' -- which according to the law are offered -- 9 then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;
  • Ps 40:7-8 : 7 Then said I, `Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me, 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart.
  • Rom 15:3 : 3 for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, `The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
  • Matt 26:39-42 : 39 And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.' 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me! 41 watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.' 42 Again, a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, `My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;'

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    39`And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

    40and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

    41The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'

    42and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'

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    30`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

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    37all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

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    16Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

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    27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

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  • John 6:44-45
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    44no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

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    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

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  • John 6:32-33
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    32Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;

    33for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

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    30Jesus answered and said, `Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;

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    40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

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    48I am the bread of the life;

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