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 with ⁵  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 replied ⁸  to him, “Let it happen now, ⁹  for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John ¹⁰  yielded ¹¹  to him.

John 4:34

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ¹²  and to complete ¹³  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 obey ¹⁵  my commandments, you will remain ¹⁶  in my love, just as I have obeyed ¹⁷  my Father’s commandments and remain ¹⁸  in his love.

Philippians 2:8

2:8 He humbled himself,

by becoming obedient to the point of death

– even death on a cross!

[10:7]  ¹ tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).

[10:7]  ² 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.”

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

[10:9]  ⁴ 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.

[10:9]  ⁵ tn Or “abolishes.”

[50:5]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “makes me obedient.” The text reads literally, “has opened for me an ear.”

[50:6]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps, “who beat [me].”

[3:15]  ⁸ tn 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.”

[3:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “Permit now.”

[3:15]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John the Baptist) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:15]  ¹¹ tn Or “permitted him.”

[4:34]  ¹² sn The one who sent me refers to the Father.

[4:34]  ¹³ tn Or “to accomplish.”

[4:34]  ¹⁴ tn The substantival ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as an English infinitive clause.

[15:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “keep.”

[15:10]  ¹⁶ tn Or “reside.”

[15:10]  ¹⁷ tn Or “kept.”

[15:10]  ¹⁸ tn Or “reside.”