Luke 22:42

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““Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.””

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BSBPD

““Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me--;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 22:42 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
  2. Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs— the cup that makes men stagger.
  3. Isaiah 51:22Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
  4. Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  5. Matthew 20:22“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” the brothers answered.
  6. Matthew 26:39Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
  7. Matthew 26:42A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”
  8. Matthew 26:44So He left them and went away once more and prayed a third time, saying the same thing.
  9. Mark 14:36“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”
  10. Luke 22:17After taking the cup, He gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.
  11. John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
  12. John 5:30I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
  13. John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
  14. John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
  15. John 18:11“Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”
  16. Hebrews 10:7Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

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