KJV King James Version
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Hebrews 10:7
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
WEB World English Bible
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
ASV American Standard Version
Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;’
Surrounding context — Hebrews 10
4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
τότεG5119 · totethenεἶπον·G2036 · eiponto sayἰδοὺG2400 · idoulook!ἥκω,G2240 · hēkōto come/be presentἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongκεφαλίδιG2777 · kephalisscrollβιβλίουG975 · biblionscrollγέγραπταιG1125 · graphōto writeπερὶG4012 · periaboutἐμοῦ,G1473 · egōI/weτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoποιῆσαι,G4160 · poieōto do/make: doὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεός,G2316 · theosGodτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoθέλημάG2307 · thelēmawill/desireσου.G4771 · suyou
Cross-references
Psalm 40:7-8Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.John 5:30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.Hebrews 10:9-10Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.Jeremiah 36:2Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.Proverbs 8:31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
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