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Notes:
(1) In Acts 13:36,
KJV
,
$
, “counsel” (
RV
), is translated “will.” (2) In Rev.
17:17,
KJV
,
, “an opinion,”
RV
, “mind,” is translated “will.” (3) For “will-worship,”
Col. 2:23, see
WORSHIP
, B, No. 2.
B. Adjectives.
1.
(
=
0
, 1635), “of free will, willingly,” occurs in Rom. 8:20,
RV
, “of its own
will” (
KJV
, “willingly”); 1 Cor. 9:17,
RV
, “of my own will” (
KJV
, “willingly”).¶ In the
Sept., Exod. 21:13; Job 36:19.¶
2.
(
/
, 210), , negative, and No. 1, “unwillingly,” occurs in 1 Cor. 9:17,
RV
,
“not of mine own will” (
KJV
, “against my will”).¶ In the Sept., Job 14:17.¶
C. Verbs.
When “will” is not part of the translation of the future tense of verbs, it represents one
of the following:
1.
(
!
, 2309), for the force of which see
DESIRE
, B, No. 6, usually expresses
“desire” or “design”; it is most frequently translated by “will” or “would”; see especially
Rom. 7:15, 16, 18-21. In 1 Tim. 2:4,
RV
, “willeth” signifies the gracious “desire” of God
for all men to be saved; not all are “willing” to accept His condition, depriving
themselves either by the selfestablished criterion of their perverted reason, or because of
their self-indulgent preference for sin. In John 6:21, the
KJV
renders the verb “willingly”
(
RV
, “they were willing”); in 2 Pet. 3:5,
KJV
, the present participle is translated
“willingly” (
RV
, “wilfully”).
The following are
RV
renderings for the
KJV
, “will”: Matt. 16:24, 25, “would”;
“wouldest,” 19:21 and 20:21; “would,” 20:26, 27; Mark 8:34, 35; 10:43, 44; “would
fain,” Luke 13:31; “would,” John 6:67; “willeth,” 7:17; in 8:44, “it is your will (to do)”;
“wouldest,” Rom. 13:3; “would,” 1 Cor. 14:35 and 1 Pet. 3:10.
2.
$
(
"
, 1014), for the force of which see
DESIRE
, B, No. 7, usually
expresses the deliberate exercise of volition more strongly than No. 1, and is rendered as
follows in the
RV
, where the
KJV
has “will”: Matt. 11:27 and Luke 10:22, “willeth”; Jas.
4:4, “would”; in Jas. 3:4,
RV
, “willeth” (
KJV
, “listeth”). In Jas. 1:18 the perfect participle
is translated “of His own will,” lit. “having willed.”
3.
(
!
, 3195), “to be about to,” is translated “will” in Matt. 2:13 and John
7:35 (twice); “wilt,” John 14:22; “will,” Acts 17:31; “wouldest,” 23:20; “will,” 27:10 and
Rev. 3:16. See
ABOUT
, B.
WILLING (Adjective and Verb)
A. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
$
, 4289) is rendered “willing” in Matt. 26:41; Mark 14:38,
RV
.
See
READY
, No. 2.
2.
$
(
=
"
, 1595**), “willing,” is used with
in Philem. 14, lit.,
“according to willing,”
RV
, “of free will” (
KJV
, “willingly”).¶
B. Verbs.
1.
(
!
, 2309) is rendered “ye were willing” in John 5:35. See
WILL
, C, No. 1.
2.
$
(
"
, 1014) is rendered “(if) Thou be willing” in Luke 22:42; in 2
Pet. 3:9,
KJV
(
RV
, wishing). See
WILL
, C, No. 2.