Bible Verses About Following God's Will

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.