9 Bible Verses about Not My Will But God's

Then he went forward a short distance, and fell on his face and prayed. "O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

"Abba, Father," he said, "all things are possible with thee. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I will, but what thou wilt."

"Father, if thou art willing, take away this cup from me; but thy will, not mine, be done!"

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

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

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

who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject??21 yet not without the hope that some day nature itself also will be freed from the thralldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

So then it is not a question of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.