Mazmur 40:8

40:8 I want to do what pleases you, ¹  my God.

Your law dominates my thoughts.” ² 

Yohanes 4:34

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ³  and to complete ⁴  his work. ⁵ 

Yohanes 5:30

5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ⁶  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ⁷  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ⁸ 

Yohanes 6:38

6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Ibrani 10:7-10

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ⁹  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ¹⁰ 

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” ¹¹  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ¹²  He does away with ¹³  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ¹⁴  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

[40:8]  ¹ tn Or “your will.”

[40:8]  ² tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.

[4:34]  ³ sn The one who sent me refers to the Father.

[4:34]  ⁴ tn Or “to accomplish.”

[4:34]  ⁵ tn The substantival ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as an English infinitive clause.

[4:34]  sn No one brought him anything to eat, did they? In the discussion with the disciples which took place while the woman had gone into the city, note again the misunderstanding: The disciples thought Jesus referred to physical food, while he was really speaking figuratively and spiritually again. Thus Jesus was forced to explain what he meant, and the explanation that his food was his mission, to do the will of God and accomplish his work, leads naturally into the metaphor of the harvest. The fruit of his mission was represented by the Samaritans who were coming to him.

[5:30]  ⁶ tn Grk “nothing from myself.”

[5:30]  ⁷ tn Or “righteous,” or “proper.”

[5:30]  ⁸ tn That is, “the will of the Father who sent me.”

[10:7]  ⁹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[10:7]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

[10:8]  ¹¹ sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

[10:9]  ¹² tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

[10:9]  ¹³ tn Or “abolishes.”

[10:10]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.