'Willing' in the Bible

"Are you willing to pronounce judgment? Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,

"But they rebelled against me and weren't willing to obey me. None of them abandoned their detestable practices or their Egyptian idols. So I said, "I'll pour out my anger on them, extending my fury in the middle of the land of Egypt.'

"As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

The Lord said to me: "Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!

The grain offering shall be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

And he shall provide a grain offering, an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

“At the feasts and the appointed festivals the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

"Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego! He sent his angel to deliver his servants who trusted in him. They disobeyed the king's command and were willing to risk their lives in order not to serve or worship any god except their own God. So I decree that people from any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego will be destroyed and their house reduced to rubble, because there is no other god who can save like this."

And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die."

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take -- suffer to him also the cloak.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

Right away a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Reaching out His hand He touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” Immediately his disease was healed.

if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and have nothing [left] to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, because they might faint [from exhaustion] on the way [home].”

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

But he wasn’t willing. On the contrary, he went and threw him into prison until he could pay what was owed.

and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” So they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for him.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Then a man with a serious skin disease came to Him and, on his knees, begged Him: “If You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched him. “I am willing,” He told him. “Be made clean.”

and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,

Stay awake and pray so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

While He was in one of the towns, a man was there who had a serious skin disease all over him. He saw Jesus, fell facedown, and begged Him: “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Reaching out His hand, He touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean,” and immediately the disease left him.

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

'For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

And he was not willing for a time, but after these [things] he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people,

"Now his countrymen hated him, and sent a deputation after him to say, 'We are not willing that he should become our king.'

Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected [him] and turned [back] in their hearts to Egypt,

These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.

but took leave of them, saying, 'It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,

But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!"

And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things?

They had previously known me for quite some time, if they were willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.

But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:

And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

So, for my part, I am ready and eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.

so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory --

in order that if God be willing I may come to you with a glad heart, and may enjoy a time of rest with you.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out not only the talk of these arrogant people, but also their power.

But I (not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not leave her.

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leave her husband.

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

About our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

I am giving you my opinion on this matter because it will be helpful to you. Last year you were not only willing to do something, but had already started to do it.

But now also complete the doing of it; so that as there was the readiness to be willing, so also to complete out of what ye have.

For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;

For I know how willing you are, and I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated most of them.

That is why I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you [before I come] and make arrangements in advance for this generous, previously promised gift of yours, so that it would be ready, not as something extorted [or wrung out of you], but as a [voluntary and] generous gift.

For if someone comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or should you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you are all too willing to listen.

Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear?

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

for it is God who works in you both the willing and the working according to his good pleasure.

So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

In fact, when we were with you, this is what we commanded you: “If anyone isn’t willing to work, he should not eat.”

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

who is willing for all mankind to be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth.

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong,

Remind people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready and willing to do good,

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?

However, the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, and without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

You ought to say instead, "If the Lord is willing, then we will live and do this or that."

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If we accept [as we do] the testimony of men [that is, if we are willing to take the sworn statements of fallible humans as evidence], the testimony of God is greater [far more authoritative]; for this is the testimony of God, that He has testified regarding His Son.

I had many things to write to you, but I am not willing to write them to you with pen and ink;

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing -- let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting -- let him come; and he who is willing -- let him take the water of life freely.