John 6:38 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

English ASV

For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

English Amplified

For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do *my* will, but the will of him that has sent me.

English EASY 2024

I have not come down from heaven to do what I myself choose to do. No, my Father has sent me. I have come to do what he wants me to do.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

I came down from heaven to do what God wants, not what I want.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

English God's Word - GW 1995

I haven't come from heaven to do what I want to do. I've come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

English KJV 1611

For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

English LSB

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

"I have not come down from heaven to do what I want to do. I have come to do what the One who sent me wants me to do.

English NIV

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

English NKJ 1982

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

English NLT

For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do what I want.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

for I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

And I have come out of heaven not for my own desires, but for the satisfaction of my Father who sent me.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For I have come here from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to have my own way.

English Tyndale 1537

For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will: but his will which hath sent me.

John 6:38 — Compare Translations