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John 6:38
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36 aBut I said to you that you have seen Me and yet bdo not believe.  
37 aAll that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and bthe one who comes to Me I will1 by no means cast out.  
38 For I have come down from heaven, anot to do My own will, bbut the will of Him who sent Me.  
39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, athat of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.  
40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, athat everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”  

Rejected by His Own

41 The Jews then1 complained about Him, because He said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”  
42 And they said, a“Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”  
Verse Comparison: John 6:38

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American Standard Version
For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Amplified® Bible
For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will {and} purpose but to do the will {and} purpose of Him Who sent Me.

Contemporary English Version
I didn't come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me,

Darby English Version
For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.

Good News Bible
because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

International Standard Version
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

King James Version
For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

New American Standard Bible
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

New International Version
For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

New King James Version
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Young's Literal Translation
because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.


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