John 6:38

New International Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

Matthew 20:28

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

John 3:13

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.

John 3:17

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John 3:31

The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.

John 4:34

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

John 5:19

Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

John 5:30

By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 6:33

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

John 6:42

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

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

Romans 15:3

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

Ephesians 4:9

(What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions?

Hebrews 5:8

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered