Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
Parallel translations
- KJV Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
- BSB Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
- NKJV Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come— In the volume of the book it is written of Me— To do Your will, O God.’ ”
- NASB “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (It is written of Me in the scroll of the book) To do Your will, O God.’ ”
- NLT Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God— as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 40:7–8Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
- John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
- Heb 10:9–10then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
- Jer 36:2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
- Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- Prov 8:31Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
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