Bible Verses About God's Will
Bible verses about God's Will
Discover what the Bible says about god's will.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
Most Helpful Verses
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Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Scripture Passages
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:
And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
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.
Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
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.
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
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.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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.
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
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?
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: