Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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;

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 Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;) 2 That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh. 3 For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

Cross References

Mark 3:35

For whoever should do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Romans 6:11

So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 14:7

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

2 Corinthians 5:15

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.

Hosea 6:7

And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever should do the will of my Father, him in the heavens, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

Mark 7:21

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders,

John 1:13

They were not born of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 7:17

If any desire to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself.

Romans 6:2

It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 12:2

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

Galatians 2:19-20

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

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 4:22-24

For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit;

Ephesians 5:7-8

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

Ephesians 5:17

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:

Colossians 1:9

For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Colossians 3:7-8

In which also ye then walked, when ye lived in them.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Titus 3:3-8

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

Hebrews 13:21

Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.

James 1:18

Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:1

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

1 Peter 2:14-15

Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.

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