– He wants all mankind to be saved:
1Tm 2,4 : Who wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
– Since the OT, his designs of love remain:
Ps 32:11 : Only the designs of the Lord endure forever and the thoughts of his heart for all generations.
Ps 134 :6: The Lord does whatever he pleases, in heaven and on earth, in the sea and in the depths of the waters.
Pr 19:21 : There are many plans in the heart of man, but it is the will of the Lord that comes true.
Is 14:24-25 : The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have decided, it will surely be done, and what I have decided will come to pass”.
Is 46,9-10 : From the beginning I foretold the future… My plan will come true, I will carry out all my wishes.
Is 55,11 : It does not return without having produced its effect, […] and fulfilled its mission.
Dan 4,14.22.29 : This sentence is a decree of the watchers, this resolution is an order of the saints.
– God’s grace will always be present, it is enough that people open up to it:
Ps 43 :4 : It was not with their sword that they conquered this land […], but it was your hand, […] because you loved them.
Wis 9,13.17 : What man, then, can know the designs of God, and penetrate into the determinations of the Lord?
Jer 31,33-34 : This is the covenant that I will then make with the house of Israel – oracle of the Lord: I will teach them my Law.
Ez 36,26-27 : I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.
Hos 2:16 : Therefore I will draw her, I will lead her into the desert, and I will speak to her heart.
– Jesus gives the example of accepting the Father’s will in his life:
Mt 16:21 : From then on, Jesus began to tell his disciples that he needed to go to Jerusalem and suffer a lot.
Mt 26,39.42 : However, not what I want, but what you want.
Mc 14,36 : However, not what I want, but what you want.
Lc 22,22.42 : The Son of Man goes according to what is determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!
Jn 4:34 : Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work”.
Jo 5,30 : My judgment is fair, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
John 6:38 : For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
Jo 8,29 : He who sent me is with me; he didn’t leave me alone, because I always do what pleases him.
Acts 2:23 : After he was handed over, according to the determined design and foreknowledge of God, you killed him.
Acts 4:27 , 28 : Indeed, in this city they were united against your holy servant Jesus.
Col 1,19-20 : For it pleased God to make all fullness dwell in him.
Heb 10,5-6 : This is why, upon entering the world, Christ says: “Sacrifice or oblation you did not want, but you formed me a body”.
– So that his disciples do the same:
Col 4:12 : He never ceases to fight for you in his prayers, […] remain fully submissive to the divine will.
Heb 12,7-13 : You are being tested for your correction: it is God who treats you like children.
Jas 4,7-15 : Be submissive to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee far from you.
– So that the will of God may also be realized in their lives:
Mt 6,10 : Your Kingdom come; your will be done.
Jo 2,5 : Then his mother said to the servants: “Do whatever he tells you”.
Acts 21:14 : As we could not persuade him, we gave up, saying: “The will of the Lord be done!”.
Rom 1:10 : I beseech him, if it be his will, finally to grant me a favorable opportunity to visit you.
Rom 15:32 : Then I will be able to come and see you with joy and, if it is the will of God.
1Cor 7,31 : Those who use this world, as if they did not use it. Because the figure of this world passes away.
1Th 4,3-4 : This is the will of God, your sanctification; that you avoid impurity.
1Th 5:18 : In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God in Jesus Christ for you.
Heb 13:21 : He wants to dispose you to good and grant you to do his will.
1Pt 2:15 : For this is the will of God, that by doing good you silence the ignorance of fools.
1Pt 3:17 : Indeed, it is better to suffer, God willing, for doing good than for doing evil.
1Pt 4,1-2 : In the time you have left for the body, live no longer according to human passions, but according to the will of God.
1Jn 2:17 : The world is passing away with its lusts, but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
1Jn 3:22 : And whatever we ask, we receive from him because we keep his commandments.
