Will

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Genesis 4:6-10 OT

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.” Cain said to…

• Deuteronomy 5:29 OT

  Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

• 1 Kings 20:42 OT

  He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’ ”

• Isaiah 1:18-20 OT

  “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the…

• Isaiah 43:26 OT

  Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

• Jeremiah 36:3 OT

  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

• Jeremiah 36:7 OT

  It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

• John 7:17 NT

  If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

• Matthew 6:10 NT

  Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

• Matthew 12:50 NT

  For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

• Matthew 26:39 NT

  He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

• Matthew 26:42 NT

  Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

• Mark 3:35 NT

  For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

• Mark 14:36 NT

  He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

• Luke 11:2 NT

  He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

• Luke 22:42 NT

  saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

• John 4:34 NT

  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

• John 5:30 NT

  I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

• John 6:38-40 NT

  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. This is the…

• Acts 18:21 NT

  but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

• Romans 12:2 NT

  Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

• Romans 15:32 NT

  that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

• 1 Corinthians 4:19 NT

  But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

• 1 Corinthians 16:7 NT

  For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.