Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.
New American Standard Bible
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,
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.
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for 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;
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Verse Info
Context Readings
The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past
1 Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin, 2 in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God. 3 For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.
Cross References
Mark 3:35
For whoever may do the will of God, the same is my brother and sister and mother.
Romans 6:11
So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 14:7
For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.
Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.
Hosea 6:7
But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.
Matthew 7:21
Not every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Mark 7:21
For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
John 1:13
who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.
John 7:17
If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.
Romans 6:2
May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Galatians 2:19-20
For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Ephesians 4:22-24
for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,
Ephesians 5:7-8
Do not become ye therefore partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:17
Because of this do not become foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:6
Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,
Colossians 1:9
Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
Colossians 3:7-8
in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Titus 3:3-8
For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.
Hebrews 13:21
may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
James 1:18
Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.
1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,
1 Peter 2:1
Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,
1 Peter 2:14-15
or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers and praise of well-doers.
1 John 2:17
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.