Bible Verses about βdoing gods willβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about doing gods will across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.β
βFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.β
βTrust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.β
βIn all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.β
βΒΆ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;β
βBut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.β
βA bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;β
ββΉThy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, asβΊ [it is] βΉin heaven.βΊβ
βBut (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.β
βBut I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.β
βΒΆ βΉNot every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.βΊβ
βIn every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.β
βFor this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:β
βFor [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;β
βLet the woman learn in silence with all subjection.β
βNotwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.β
β(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)β
βOne that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;β
βFor Adam was first formed, then Eve.β
βΒΆ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;β
βAnd Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.β
βNot given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;β
βΒΆ This [is] a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.β
βBecause thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];β
βTherefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all [things]: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.β
βFor so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:β
βThe LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.β
βThe LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.β
βNot a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.β
βMoreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.β
βΒΆ Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;β
βAnd the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]:β
βFor kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.β
βΒΆ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:β
βAnd all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.β
βBlessed [shalt] thou [be] in the city, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] in the field.β
βBlessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.β
βThe LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.β
βThe LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.β
βThe LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.β
βAnd all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.β
βAnd the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.β
βAnd thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand, or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.β
βBlessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.β
βBlessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou comest in, and blessed [shalt] thou [be] when thou goest out.β
βAnd thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.β
βThe LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.β
βThe LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, [as swift] as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;β
βThe LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.β
βThe LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.β
