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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.

KJV

τότε εἶπον, ἰδοὺ ἥκω, ἐν κεφαλίδι βιβλίου γέγραπται περὶ ἐμοῦ, τοῦ ποιῆσαι, ὁ θεός, τὸ θέλημά σου.

Greek NT

Tunc dixi : Ecce venio : in capite libri scriptum est de me : Ut faciam, Deus, voluntatem tuam.

Vulgate

Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.

ASV

Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βιβλίον
biblion
noun · 32×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
θέλημα
thelema
noun · 62×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κεφαλίς
kephalis
noun · 1×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
τότε
tote
adverb · 157×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἥκω
eko
verb · 26×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§462The Letter to the Hebrews refers to the same mystery: Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I have come to do your will, O God."84
§606The Son of God, who came down "from heaven, not to do (his) own will, but the will of him who sent (him)",413 said on coming into the world, "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." "and by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."414 From the first moment of his Incarnation the Son embraces the Father's plan of divine sa…
§2568In the Old Testament, the revelation of prayer comes between the fall and the restoration of man, that is, between God's sorrowful call to his first children: "Where are you? . . . What is this that you have done?"3 and the response of God's only Son on coming into the world: "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God."4 Prayer is bound up with human history, for it is the relatio…
…and 1 more from this source.

Cross-references

  • Gen 3:15 — And 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.
  • Heb 10:5 — Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
  • Heb 10:9 — Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
  • Heb 10:9 — Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
  • Jer 36:2 — Take 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 o
  • John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
  • John 5:30 — I 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.
  • John 6:38 — For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • John 6:38 — For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • Luke 22:42 — Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
  • Matt 6:10 — Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
  • Phil 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  • Prov 8:31 — Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
  • Ps 40:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
  • Ps 40:7 — Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,