Lexicon :: Strong's G2307 - thelēma

“Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

“For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

“In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

“Which of the two did his father’s will? ”

They said, “The first.”

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this[fn] cannot pass[fn] unless I drink it, your will be done.”

“Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

“And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it[fn] will be severely beaten.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me ​— ​nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

who were born, not of natural descent,[fn] or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man,[fn] but of God.

“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.

“I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

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

“If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

“We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.

“After removing him, he raised up David as their king and testified about him, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my will.’

Since he would not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

“And he said, ‘The God of our ancestors has appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the words from his mouth,

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

and know his will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

and that, by God’s will, I may come to you with joy and be refreshed together with you.

Paul, called as an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Sosthenes our brother:

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep her as his fiancée, will do well.

Now 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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our[fn] brother:

To the church of God at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will:

To the faithful saints in Christ Jesus[fn] at Ephesus.[fn]

He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ

In him we have also received an inheritance,[fn] because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, and Timothy our brother:

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,[fn]

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured[fn] in everything God wills.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,

give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, for the sake of the promise of life in Christ Jesus:

Then they may come to their senses and escape the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Then I said, “See —

it is written about me

in the scroll —

I have come to do your will, God.”

he then says, See, I have come to do your will.[fn] He takes away the first to establish the second.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

equip[fn] you with everything good to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.[fn] Amen.