Bible verse
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:38 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 6.
34 “Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”
35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
36 But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.
37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
40 For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
41 At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’”
KJV
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
ASV
For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
ERV
For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
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