John 4:34
4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me
and to complete
his work.
John 10:18
10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down
of my own free will.
I have the authority
to lay it down, and I have the authority
to take it back again. This commandment
I received from my Father.”
John 12:27
12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
John 15:9
15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.
John 18:11
18:11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Psalms 40:8
40:8 I want to do what pleases you, my God.
Your law dominates my thoughts.”
Matthew 26:39
26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,
“My Father, if possible,
let this cup
pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Philippians 2:8
2:8 He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
– even death on a cross!
Hebrews 5:7-8
5:7 During his earthly life
Christ
offered
both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.
5:8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.
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: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”
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” (which are offered according to the law),
10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.
Hebrews 12:2-3
12:2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and
has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
12:3 Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.