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.

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• Eph 4:22–24to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Titus 3:3–8For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 6:11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
• Eph 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
• 2 Cor 5:15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
• Rom 6:2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
• Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• Eph 5:7–8Therefore do not be partakers with them.
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Rom 14:7For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
• 1 Pet 2:1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Gal 2:19–20For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
• Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
• Col 3:7–8When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• Mark 7:21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Eph 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• Col 1:9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Pet 2:14–15or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
• Matt 21:31Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
• Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.
• John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

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