Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72

Alles nur nach Gottes Willen ('Everything according to God's will alone'), BWV 72, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig in 1726 for the third Sunday after Epiphany and first performed it on 27 January 1726. It is part of his third cantata cycle and concluded the Christmas season. Bach later used the opening chorus for the Gloria of his Missa in G minor, BWV 235.

Bach composed the cantata in his third year as Thomaskantor, setting a libretto which Salomon Franck, his librettist at the ducal court in Weimar, had published in 1715. It is structured in six movements, an opening chorus, two pairs of recitative and aria, and a closing chorale, taken from "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit", published by Albert, Duke of Prussia in 1547. The cantata is scored for three soloists, a four-part choir (SATB), and a Baroque instrumental ensemble of two oboes, strings and basso continuo.