1 Peter 4:2

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Summary

1 Peter 4:2

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.

No

Titus 3:3

The lusts

Ephesians 2:3

The will

General references

Romans 14:7

Bible References

No

Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit to God.

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds,

Therefore do not be partners with them;

In these you once walked, when you lived in them.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

The lusts

Among them we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

The will

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

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

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother."

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

If anyone is willing to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

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

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

And 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.

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

For this reason also, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

General references

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.