1 Peter 4:2

The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past

¹ Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin, ² nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions. ³ It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

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

Romans 6:11

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 14:7

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

2 Corinthians 5:15

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

Matthew 7:21

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of the father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly, the taxgatherers and harlots are going into the Realm of God before you.

Mark 7:21

From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

John 1:13

who owe this birth of theirs to God, not to human blood, nor to any impulse of the flesh or of man.

John 7:17

anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

Romans 6:2

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

Romans 7:4

It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

Romans 12:2

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Galatians 2:19-20

For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

Ephesians 4:17

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

Ephesians 4:22-24

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Ephesians 5:7-8

So avoid the company of such men.

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

Ephesians 6:6

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

Colossians 1:9

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

Colossians 3:7-8

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you ??a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

Titus 3:3-8

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Hebrews 13:21

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

James 1:18

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

1 Peter 1:14

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:1

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

1 Peter 2:14-15

and to governors as deputed by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the encouragement of honest people ??15 for it is the will of God that by your honest lives you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish persons.

1 John 2:17

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.