9 Bible Verses about Not My Will But God's

Going forward a short distance He fell on His face and prayed. "My Father," He said, "if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou willest."

and He said, "Abba! my Father! all things are possible for Thee: take this cup of suffering away from me: and yet not what I desire, but what Thou desirest."

"Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup away from me; yet not my will but Thine be done!"

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

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.

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it)

And from this we learn that everything is dependent not on man's will or endeavour, but upon God who has mercy. For the Scripture said to Pharaoh,