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

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

Therefore have nothing to do with them.

And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.

For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

The lusts

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

The will

For it is the will of God that by doing right you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish people.

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

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

Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

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

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God.

So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

General references

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;