Hebrews 10:5-9

10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am:¹ I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”²

10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”³ (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.”⁴ He does away with⁵ the first to establish the second.

Isaiah 50:5-6

50:5 The sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly;⁶

I have not rebelled,

I have not turned back.

50:6 I offered my back to those who attacked,⁷

my jaws to those who tore out my beard;

I did not hide my face

from insults and spitting.

Matthew 3:15

3:15 So Jesus replied⁸ to him, “Let it happen now,⁹ for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John¹⁰ yielded¹¹ to him.

John 4:34

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me¹² and to complete¹³ his work.¹⁴

John 6:38

6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

John 15:10

15:10 If you obey¹⁵ my commandments, you will remain¹⁶ in my love, just as I have obeyed¹⁷ my Father’s commandments and remain¹⁸ in his love.

Philippians 2:8

2:8 He humbled himself,

by becoming obedient to the point of death

– even death on a cross!

¹tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

²sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”

³sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

⁴tc The majority of mss, especially the later ones (א² 0278^vid 1739 Ï lat), have ὁ θεός (Jo qeo", “God”) at this point, while most of the earliest and best witnesses lack such an explicit addressee (so Ì⁴⁶ א* A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 (39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7.

⁵tn Or “abolishes.”

⁶tn Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”

⁷tn Or perhaps, “who beat [me].”

⁸tn Grk “but Jesus, answering, said.” This construction with passive participle and finite verb is pleonastic (redundant) and has been simplified in the translation to “replied to him.”

⁹tn Grk “Permit now.”

¹⁰tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Or “permitted him.”

¹²sn The one who sent me refers to the Father.

¹³tn Or “to accomplish.”

¹⁴tn The substantival ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as an English infinitive clause.

¹⁵tn Or “keep.”

¹⁶tn Or “reside.”

¹⁷tn Or “kept.”

¹⁸tn Or “reside.”