1 John 2:17

The world and its desires are passing away, but whoever does God's will lives forever. Only a life aligned with God endures.

Cross-references · 28

• Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
• 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 1 Pet 4:2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
• Heb 10:36For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
• Isa 40:6–8The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• 1 Pet 1:24–25For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• John 10:28–30I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• 1 Th 4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 6:58This is the bread which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.
• Jas 1:10–11and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
• Prov 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• Ps 125:1–2A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
• Ps 90:9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
• Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
• Col 1:9For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• Ps 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

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