Psalms 40:8

40:8 I want to do what pleases you, ¹  my God.

Your law dominates my thoughts.” ² 

John 4:34

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ³  and to complete ⁴  his work. ⁵ 

John 5:30

5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ⁶  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ⁷  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ⁸ 

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.

Hebrews 10:7-10

10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: ⁹  I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” ¹⁰ 

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” ¹¹  (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ¹²  He does away with ¹³  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ¹⁴  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹ tn Or “your will.”

² tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.

³ sn The one who sent me refers to the Father.

⁴ tn Or “to accomplish.”

⁵ tn The substantival ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as an English infinitive clause.

⁶ tn Grk “nothing from myself.”

⁷ tn Or “righteous,” or “proper.”

⁸ tn That is, “the will of the Father who sent me.”

⁹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

¹⁰ sn 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.”

¹¹ sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.

¹² tc 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.

¹³ tn Or “abolishes.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.