Bible verses about "discern gods will" | Twentieth_Century

¹⁴ So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.

⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

⁴⁰ Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep. "What!" he said to Peter, "could none of you watch with me for one hour? ⁴¹ Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

³⁸ For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me; ³⁹ And his will is this--that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last Day. ⁴⁰ For it is the will of my Father that every one who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have Immortal Life; and I myself will raise him up at the Last Day."

⁴⁵ That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶ That which comes first is not the spiritual, but the human; afterwards comes the spiritual; ⁴⁷ The first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from Heaven. ⁴⁸ Those who are of the dust are like him who came from the dust; and those who are of Heaven are like him who came from Heaven. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from Heaven.

¹⁰ But, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is Life as a consequence of righteousness.

³ For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

¹⁸ Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

⁵ I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me. ⁶ If any one does not remain united to me, he is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up. Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt. ⁷ If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours. ⁸ It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honored.

¹⁸ I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy. ¹⁹ I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do-that I habitually do. ²⁰ But, when I do the very thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but that of Sin which is within me. ²¹ This, then, is the law that I find-When I want to do right, wrong presents itself! ²² At heart I delight in the Law of God; ²³ But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body. ²⁴ Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?

¹⁷ If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

²⁶ So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance. ²⁷ Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit's meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ's People are in accordance with his will.

² Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.