Matthew 11:26

New English Translation

Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

Cross References

Job 33:13

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Isaiah 46:10

who announces the end from the beginning and reveals beforehand what has not yet occurred, who says, ‘My plan will be realized, I will accomplish what I desire,’

Luke 10:21

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

Luke 22:42

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.” [

Luke 23:34

[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

John 11:41

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

John 12:27

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

John 12:28

Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

Romans 9:18

So then, God has mercy on whom he chooses to have mercy, and he hardens whom he chooses to harden.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 1:9

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

Ephesians 3:11

This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

2 Timothy 1:9

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,