θέλημαthélēma
GreekG230764 occurrences (KJV)
a determination (properly, the thing), i.e. (actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively) inclination
KJV renders it: desire, pleasure, will
Where it appears(showing the first 60 of 64)
- Matt 6:10Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
- Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
- Matt 18:14Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
- Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
- Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
- Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
- Luke 11:2He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
- Luke 12:47That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Luke 22:42saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
- Luke 23:25He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
- John 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- 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.
- John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
- John 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
- John 9:31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
- Acts 13:22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
- Acts 21:14When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
- Acts 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
- Rom 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
- Rom 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
- Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- Rom 15:32that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
- 1 Cor 1:1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
- 1 Cor 7:37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
- 1 Cor 16:12Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
- 2 Cor 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
- 2 Cor 8:5This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
- Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
- Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
- Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
- Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
- Eph 1:11in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will;
- Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- Eph 6:6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
- Col 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
- Col 1:9For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
- Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
- 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
- 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
- 2 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
- 2 Tim 2:26and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
- Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
- Heb 10:9then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
- Heb 10:10by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
- Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
- Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 1 Pet 2:15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
- 1 Pet 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
- 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
- 1 Pet 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
- 1 Pet 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
- 2 Pet 1:21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
- 1 Jn 5:14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- Rev 4:11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.