discern gods will

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

²⁶And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing. ²⁷And he who examines hearts knows what the Spirit seeks, because he asks on behalf of the saints in accordance with God.

¹⁷If anyone has chosen to do his will, then he will realize, about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.

²³The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, and he will choose his way.

⁸I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.

⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. ⁶In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.

²¹And your ears will listen to the word of one admonishing you behind your back: “This is the way! Walk in it! And do not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left.”

¹⁸For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach. ¹⁹For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me. ²¹And so, I discover the law, by wanting to do good within myself, though evil lies close beside me. ²²For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man. ²³But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in me, he will be cast away, like a branch, and he will wither, and they will gather him and cast him into the fire, and he burns. ⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. ⁸In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

¹⁸Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.

⁴¹Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

¹⁴Even so, it is not the will before your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.

¹⁴The Lord is a firmament to those who fear him, and his covenant will be made manifest to them.

³⁸For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹Yet this is the will of the Father who sent me: that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given to me, but that I should raise them up on the last day. ⁴⁰So then, this is the will of my Father who sent me: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters, ¹⁷who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished. ¹⁸You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. ¹⁹Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.