1 Peter 4:2

The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past

¹ Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin-- ² that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God. ³ For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

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

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

Romans 6:11

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 14:7

For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself.

2 Corinthians 5:15

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

Matthew 7:21

"Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.

Matthew 12:50

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed--fornication, theft, murder, adultery,

John 1:13

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

John 7:17

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

Romans 6:2

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Romans 7:4

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

Romans 12:2

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

Galatians 2:19-20

for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.

Ephesians 2:3

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Ephesians 4:22-24

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

Ephesians 5:7-8

Therefore do not become sharers with them.

Ephesians 5:17

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

Ephesians 6:6

Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

Colossians 3:7-8

and you also were once addicted to them, while you were living under their power.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

Titus 3:3-8

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Hebrews 13:21

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

James 1:18

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

1 Peter 1:14

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.

1 Peter 2:14-15

or to provincial Governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and the encouragement of those who do what is right.

1 John 2:17

And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.