Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

New American Standard Bible

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

King James Version

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Holman Bible

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

International Standard Version

so that he can live the rest of his mortal life guided, not by human desires, but by the will of God.

A Conservative Version

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

American Standard Version

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Amplified

so that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living for human appetites and desires, but [lives] for the will and purpose of God.

An Understandable Version

So then, you should no longer live the rest of your lives [to satisfy] the sinful desires of your body, but to do what God wants.

Anderson New Testament

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

Bible in Basic English

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

Common New Testament

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

Darby Translation

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

Emphatic Diaglott Bible

so that he no longer lives his remaining time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Godbey New Testament

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

Goodspeed New Testament

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

John Wesley New Testament

(for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin) That ye may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh, to the desire of men, but to the will of God.

Julia Smith Translation

That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.

King James 2000

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Modern King James verseion

in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

Moffatt New Testament

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

Montgomery New Testament

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

NET Bible

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

New Heart English Bible

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Noyes New Testament

that ye may no longer live the remaining time in the flesh after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

Sawyer New Testament

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

The Emphasized Bible

To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

Twentieth Century New Testament

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Webster

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Weymouth New Testament

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Williams New Testament

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

World English Bible

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Worrell New Testament

that ye no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh to the desires of men, but to the will of God.

Worsley New Testament

that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

Youngs Literal Translation

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

he
βιόω 
Bioo 
Usage: 1

no longer
μηκέτι 
meketi 
no more, no longer, henceforth not, no, no ... henceforward, hereafter,
Usage: 16

βιόω 
Bioo 
Usage: 1

the rest
ἐπίλοιπος 
Epiloipos 
Usage: 1

of
χρόνος 
Chronos 
Usage: 41

χρόνος 
Chronos 
Usage: 41

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the flesh
σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

to the lusts
ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

of men
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

to the will
θέλημα 
thelema 
will, desire, pleasure
Usage: 45

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Peter 4:2

Devotionals containing 1 Peter 4:2

References

Images 1 Peter 4:2

Prayers for 1 Peter 4:2

Context Readings

The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past

1 Therefore, [because] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God. 3 For the time that has passed [was] sufficient {to do what the Gentiles desire to do}, having lived in licentiousness, [evil] desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,


Cross References

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother."

Romans 6:11

So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 14:7

For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you [are] my God; your Spirit [is] good. Lead me onto level ground.

Hosea 6:7

But like Adam, they transgressed [the] covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Matthew 7:21

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of my Father [who is] in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother."

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of [his] father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!

Mark 7:21

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

John 1:13

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

Romans 6:2

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 7:4

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Galatians 2:19-20

For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Ephesians 2:3

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.

Ephesians 4:17

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind,

Ephesians 4:22-24

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

Ephesians 5:7-8

Therefore do not be sharers with them,

Ephesians 5:17

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

Ephesians 6:6

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 1:9

Because of this also we, from the day we heard about [it], did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled [with] the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

Colossians 3:7-8

in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is [one] of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

give thanks in everything; for this [is] the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:3-8

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

James 1:18

[By his] will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires [you used to conform to] in your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

1 Peter 2:14-15

or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away, and its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains {forever}.

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