John 6:38 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

John 6:38 Cross References

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

John 3:13

And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven.

John 3:17

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

John 3:31

He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 5:19

Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

John 5:30

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgement is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

John 6:29

Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

John 6:33

For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

John 6:42

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

John 6:57

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.

Romans 15:3

For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

Ephesians 4:9

(Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

Hebrews 5:8

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;