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 ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• Titus 3:3–8For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Eph 6:6Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• 2 Cor 5:15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• Rom 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• Eph 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 5:7–8Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
• Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Rom 14:7For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
• 1 Pet 2:1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Gal 2:19–20For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
• Hos 6:7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
• Mark 3:35For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
• Col 3:7–8In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
• John 7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
• Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Matt 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
• Jas 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• Col 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• Rom 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
• Matt 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
• 1 Th 5:18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
• 1 Pet 2:14–15Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
• 1 Jn 2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• Matt 21:31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
• Rom 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Heb 13:21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• John 1:13Which 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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