Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Williams New Testament

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but 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.

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 the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without, 38 because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me. 39 'And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;



Cross References

John 4:34

Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

John 5:30

'I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

John 3:13

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

Isaiah 53:10

And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.

Psalm 40:7-8

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

Matthew 20:28

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

Matthew 26:39-42

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

John 3:31

he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

John 6:33

for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

Romans 15:3

for even the Christ did not please himself, but, according as it hath been written, 'The reproaches of those reproaching Thee fell upon me;'

Ephesians 4:9

and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?

Philippians 2:7-8

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

Hebrews 5:8

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered -- the obedience,

Hebrews 10:7-9

then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

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