1 Peter 4:2

The believer's remaining earthly life is to be lived for God's will rather than for human passions. It defines the new direction of a converted life.

Cross-references · 33

• Eph 4:22–24that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• 1 Pet 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Titus 3:3–8For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 6:11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Eph 6:6not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• 2 Cor 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Eph 5:7–8Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
• Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• Rom 14:7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
• 1 Pet 2:1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
• Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”
• Col 3:7–8You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;
• 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.
• Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• 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,
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• 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.
• 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
• 1 Pet 2:14–15or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
• 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.
• 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.
• Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• 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.
• John 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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