John 6:38

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief; when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand;

Matthew 20:28

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

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.

John 3:17

For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:31

He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all.

John 4:34

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

John 5:19

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, that the Son does likewise.

John 5:30

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

John 6:29

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

John 6:33

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

John 6:42

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

John 6:57

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.

Romans 15:3

For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached thee fell on me.”

Ephesians 4:9

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

Hebrews 5:8

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