Parallel Verses

Williams New Testament

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

New American Standard Bible

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I might do my will, but the will of him who sent me.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

An Understandable Version

For I have come down from heaven to do what God, who sent me, wants me to do, not what I want to do.

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

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

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

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

Darby Translation

For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do my will, but the will of him that has sent me.

Godbey New Testament

Because I have come down from heaven, not that I may do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.

Goodspeed New Testament

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

For I have come down from heaven, not that I might do my will, but the will of him having sent me.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Modern King James verseion

For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will, but his will which hath sent me.

Moffatt New Testament

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

Montgomery New Testament

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

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

The Emphasized Bible

Because I have come down from heaven, - Not that I should be doing my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For I came down from heaven, not with a view to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

because I have come down from Heaven, not to do My Own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me.

Worsley New Testament

For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.

Youngs Literal Translation

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

οὐρανός 
Ouranos 
Usage: 156

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

to
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

ἐμός 
Emos 
my, mine, mine own, of me, I
Usage: 25

will
θέλημα 
thelema 
will, desire, pleasure
Usage: 45

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

the will
θέλημα 
thelema 
will, desire, pleasure
Usage: 45

πέμπω 
Pempo 
Usage: 39

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Images John 6:38

Prayers for John 6:38

Context Readings

Discourse About The Bread Of Life

37 All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me, 38  because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me. 39 Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.



Cross References

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

John 5:30

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

John 3:13

And yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down out of heaven.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

Matthew 26:39-42

Then He walked on a few steps and threw Himself upon His face, and in this attitude continued to pray, and say, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me; and yet, I pray, not what I want but what you want."

John 3:31

He who comes from above is far above all others. He who springs from earth belongs to the earth and speaks of earth. He who comes from heaven is far above all others.

John 6:33

for the bread that God gives is what comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

Romans 15:3

Christ certainly did not please Himself; instead, as the Scripture says, "The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen upon me."

Ephesians 4:9

What does "He went up" mean, except that He had first gone down into the lower regions of the earth?

Philippians 2:7-8

but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men.

Hebrews 5:8

Although He was a Son, He learned from what He suffered how to obey,

Hebrews 10:7-9

Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"

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