Wednesday, July 11, 2007

God's Will

"Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." (Mark 3: 35 NIV)

"If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own." (John 7: 17 NIV)

"But as he left, he promised, "I will come back if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus." (Acts 18: 21 NIV)

"For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God." (Acts 20: 27 NIV)

"Then he said: 'The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth." (Acts 22: 14 NIV)

"So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me." (Acts 27: 25 NIV)

"...and I pray that now at last by God's will the way may be opened for me to come to you." (Romans 1: 10 NIV)

"...so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed." (Romans 15: 32 NIV)

"And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will." (Romans 8: 27 NIV)

"One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" (Romans 9: 19 NIV)

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Romans 12: 2 NIV)

"Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God..." (I Corinthians 1: 1 & II Cor. 1: 1; Ephesians 1: 1, etc. NIV)

"And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will." (II Corinthians 8: 5 NIV)

"...who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father..." (Galatians 1: 4 NIV)

"Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart." (Ephesians 6: 6 NIV)

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding." (Colossians 1: 9 NIV)

"Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured." (Colossians 4: 12 NIV)

"It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God." (I Thessalonians 4: 3-5 NIV)

"Pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." (I Thessalonians 5: 17, 18 NIV)

"And God permitting, we will do so." (Hebrews 6: 3 NIV)

"Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—I have come to do your will, O God.' " (Hebrews 10: 7 NIV)

"You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised." (Hebrews 10: 36 NIV)

"Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." (James 4: 13-15 NIV)

"For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men." (I Peter 2: 15 NIV)

"It is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil." (I Peter 3: 17 NIV)

"As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God...So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good." (I Peter 4: 2, 19 NIV)

"The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever." (I John 2: 17 NIV)

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being." (Revelation 4: 11 NIV)

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1: 12, 13 NIV)

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