1 Peter 4:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.

Hosea 6:7

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

Matthew 12:50

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

Matthew 20:4

And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work.

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.

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.

Mark 3:35

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

Mark 7:21

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

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 fromfrom God or from myself.

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.

Romans 14:7

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

Romans 6:11

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

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.

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.

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 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 3:3

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

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.

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 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.