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18 Bible Verses About God’s Will, Starting With Where Scripture States It

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Summary

  • Where the New Testament names the will of God outright, it concerns character, conduct and faith rather than a job, a house or a spouse.
  • Romans 12:2 describes discernment as something arrived at by testing, and it depends on a changed mind rather than a sign.
  • John 7:17 puts willingness to do God’s will before knowing whether Jesus’ teaching is from God.
  • Jesus asks for the cup to be removed before he surrenders the request, so submission is not the same as having no preference.
  • The warning of Matthew 7:21 is aimed at people who had prophesied and cast out demons, not at the uncommitted.

Where Scripture states the will of God outright, it concerns how to live and whom to trust; particular choices such as a job, a city or a spouse are left to wisdom. Paul writes “this is the will of God” about sanctification and about giving thanks (1 Thessalonians 4:3; 5:18). Peter uses the phrase of doing good under suspicion and of suffering (1 Peter 2:15; 4:19), and Jesus uses it of everyone who believes in the Son (John 6:40). For…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

The explicit statements are at 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, 1 Peter 2:15, 1 Peter 4:19 and John 6:40; Ephesians 5:17 instructs us to understand it.

The single Greek sentence of Ephesians 1 runs from verse 3 to verse 14.

The busy people Jesus describes are at Matthew 7:22-23.

The idols Isaiah is arguing against, and the test he applies, are at Isaiah 46:5-9 and 41:22-23.

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