Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
- KJV Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy 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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Quick answer
Christ declares that he has come to do God's will, as the Scriptures foretold. His whole mission was obedient devotion to the Father.
Overview
The climax of the Psalm 40 quotation: Christ says, 'I have come to do your will, O God.' Where Israel's sacrifices failed, Christ offers perfect obedience. His coming fulfills what was 'written of him' in Scripture, and his obedient will is the foundation of our salvation.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 40:7–8Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
- John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- John 5:30I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
- Heb 10:9–10Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
- Jer 36:2“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- Prov 8:31I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.
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