Hebrews 10:9-10

10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” ¹  He does away with ²  the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will ³  we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Proverbs 8:31

8:31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, ⁴ 

and delighting ⁵  in its people. ⁶ 

John 4:34

4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me ⁷  and to complete ⁸  his work. ⁹ 

John 5:30

5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ¹⁰  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ¹¹  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ¹² 

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.

[10:9]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Or “abolishes.”

[10:10]  ³ tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[8:31]  ⁴ tn The two words are synonymous in general and so could be taken to express a superlative idea – the “whole world” (cf. NIV, NCV). But תֵּבֵל (tevel) also means the inhabited world, and so the construct may be interpreted as a partitive genitive.

[8:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “and my delights” [were] with/in.”

[8:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sons of man.”

[4:34]  ⁷ sn The one who sent me refers to the Father.

[4:34]  ⁸ tn Or “to accomplish.”

[4:34]  ⁹ tn The substantival ἵνα (Jina) clause has been translated as an English infinitive clause.

[5:30]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “nothing from myself.”

[5:30]  ¹¹ tn Or “righteous,” or “proper.”

[5:30]  ¹² tn That is, “the will of the Father who sent me.”