1 Peter 4:2

The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; ² 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. ³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

By the Will of God

In Me

On Earth

Purpose of God

Will of God

With God

Of This Life

O God

No

Sin

Mark 3:35

Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Romans 6:11

Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 14:7

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

Hosea 6:7

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.

Mark 7:21

Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

John 1:13

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

John 7:17

If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

Romans 6:2

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

Galatians 2:19-20

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

Ephesians 4:17

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

Ephesians 4:22-24

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

Ephesians 5:7-8

Have no part with such men;

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

Ephesians 6:6

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Colossians 3:7-8

Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Titus 3:3-8

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Hebrews 13:21

Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

1 Peter 2:1

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

1 Peter 2:14-15

And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.