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100 Bible Verses about ACCEPTING GOD’S WILL

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

John 3:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.

John 14:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 1:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matthew 6:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

James 1:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 15:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 6:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 6 helpful votes 

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 John 2:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes 

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Titus 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 16:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 7:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

John 3:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Luke 1:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Matthew 26:36-39 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.” And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.” And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

2 Samuel 10:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians. The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites. And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you. Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

2 Samuel 10:1-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites. But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?” So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away. When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.” …

Numbers 27:15-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes 

Moses spoke to the Lord, saying, “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.” So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him. Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 10:9-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 2:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

For God shows no partiality.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 22:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

Matthew 16:1-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. …

Psalm 119:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Revelation 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Peter 4:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.

1 Peter 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

1 Peter 1:3-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. …

James 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

James 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

James 1:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

1 Timothy 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:15-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, …

Ephesians 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Galatians 3:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Romans 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 8:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Romans 8:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

John 15:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. …

John 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes 

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:38-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”