1 Peter 4:2 - Tree of Life Version

² As a result, he lives the rest of his time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.

American Standard Version (1901)

² that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Common English Bible

² As a result, they don’t live the rest of their human lives in ways determined by human desires but in ways determined by God’s will.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

1 Peter 4:2 Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. Let Your good Ruach lead me on level ground.

Hosea 6:7

But like Adam, they transgressed a covenant. There they dealt treacherously with Me.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 20:4

And to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did the will of the father?” “The first,” they said. Yeshua said to them, “Amen, I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil intentions, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

John 1:13

They were born not of a bloodline, nor of human desire, nor of man’s will, but of God.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 14:7

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

Romans 6:11

So also continually count yourselves both dead to sin and alive to God in Messiah Yeshua.

Romans 6:2

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were made dead to the Torah through the body of Messiah, so that you might be joined to another—the One who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And He died for all so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

Ephesians 2:3

We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.

Ephesians 5:17

For this reason do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Ephesians 6:6

not just under your master’s eye as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Messiah doing God’s will from the soul.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason also, ever since we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We keep asking God that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding—

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in God.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of your own, a slave of Messiah Yeshua, greets you. He is always laboring in prayer on your behalf, so you may stand complete and fully assured about everything that is God’s will.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good thing to do His will, accomplishing in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Messiah Yeshua. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

James 1:18

By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra .

1 John 2:17

The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.