John 6:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Common English Bible

³⁸ I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38 Cross References

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 4:34

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

John 3:31

The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Hebrews 5:8

Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered,

Romans 15:3

For Christ did not please himself, but, as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

Ephesians 4:9

(When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

John 3:17

“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own but only what he sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

John 6:29

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

John 6:42

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.