1 Peter 2:15
2:15 For God wants you
to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
Psalms 143:10
143:10 Teach me to do what pleases you,
for you are my God.
May your kind presence
lead me into a level land.
Matthew 7:21
Judgment of Pretenders
7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 12:50
12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is
my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 21:31
21:31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.”
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth,
tax collectors
and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
Mark 3:35
3:35 For whoever does the will of God is
my brother and sister and mother.”
John 1:13
1:13 – children not born
by human parents
or by human desire
or a husband’s
decision,
but by God.
John 7:17
7:17 If anyone wants to do God’s will,
he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.
Romans 6:11
6:11 So you too consider yourselves
dead to sin, but
alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:2
12:2 Do not be conformed
to this present world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve
what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Romans 12:2
12:2 Do not be conformed
to this present world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve
what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
Colossians 1:15
The Supremacy of Christ
1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
Galatians 2:19-20
2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
2:20 I have been crucified with Christ,
and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So
the life I now live in the body,
I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 5:17
5:17 For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise
by understanding
what the Lord’s will is.
Ephesians 6:6
6:6 not like those who do their work only when someone is watching
– as people-pleasers – but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart.
Colossians 1:9
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Colossians 4:12
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave
of Christ,
greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured
in all the will of God.
Colossians 4:1
4:1 Masters, treat your slaves with justice and fairness, because you know that you also have a master in heaven.
Colossians 1:18
1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things.
Hebrews 13:21
13:21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us
what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever.
Amen.
James 1:18
1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth
through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
James 1:1
Salutation
1:1 From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!
James 2:17
2:17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.