John 6:38

Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians

What man could ever say, "I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me? "[25]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

You have (then) the restoration of the entire man, inasmuch as the Lord purposes to save that part of him which perishes, whilst he will not of course lose that portion which cannot be lost, Who will any longer doubt of the safety of both natures, when one of them is to obtain salvation, and the other is not to lose it? And, still further, the Lord explains to us the meaning of the thing when He says: "I came not to do my own will, but the Father's, who hath sent me."[225]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

And it is not His own will, but the Father's, which He has accomplished,[87]

Tertullian On Prayer

the Father's will;[27]

Cyprian Treatise II On the Dress of Virgins

Therefore eternal and divine things are to be followed, and all things must be done after the will of God, that we may follow the divine footsteps and teachings of our Lord, who warned us, and said, "I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me."[22]

Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer

And in another place He says, "I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me."[39]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

In the Gospel according to John: "I came not down from heaven to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me."[504]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

Or when he reads: "I came not down from heaven to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me? "[201]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and. "I came not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me; "[567]