He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

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.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good.

for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

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

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.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints [in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

“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.’”

then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

And the world is passing away with all its desires, but the person who does the will of God remains forever.