Translations
Louis Segond 1910
car je suis descendu du ciel pour faire, non ma volonté, mais la volonté de celui qui m'a envoyé.
KJV
‹For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.›
‹For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.›
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