1 Peter 4:2

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That way you won’t be guided by sinful human desires as you live the rest of your lives on earth. Instead, you will be guided by what God wants you to do.

Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, because you are my God. May your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Hosea 6:7

“Like Adam, you rejected the promise. You were unfaithful to me.

Matthew 12:50

Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 20:4

He said to them, ‘Work in my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So they went.

Matthew 21:31

“Which of the two sons did what the father wanted?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “I can guarantee this truth: Tax collectors and prostitutes are going into God’s kingdom ahead of you.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who does what my Father in heaven wants.

Mark 3:35

Whoever does what God wants is my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 7:21

Evil thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,

John 1:13

These people didn’t become God’s children in a physical way—from a human impulse or from a husband’s desire ⌞to have a child⌟. They were born from God.

John 7:17

Those who want to follow the will of God will know if what I teach is from God or if I teach my own thoughts.

Romans 12:2

Don’t become like the people of this world. Instead, change the way you think. Then you will always be able to determine what God really wants—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Romans 14:7

It’s clear that we don’t live to honor ourselves, and we don’t die to honor ourselves.

Romans 6:11

So consider yourselves dead to sin’s power but living for God in the power Christ Jesus gives you.

Romans 6:2

That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?

Romans 7:4

In the same way, brothers and sisters, you have died to the laws in Moses’ Teachings through Christ’s body. You belong to someone else, the one who was brought back to life. As a result, we can do what God wants.

2 Corinthians 5:15

He died for all people so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the man who died and was brought back to life for them.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among these people, and followed the desires of our corrupt nature. We did what our corrupt desires and thoughts wanted us to do. So, because of our nature, we deserved God’s anger just like everyone else.

Ephesians 4:17

So I tell you and encourage you in the Lord’s name not to live any longer like other people in the world. Their minds are set on worthless things.

Ephesians 5:17

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord wants.

Ephesians 6:6

Don’t obey them only while you’re being watched, as if you merely wanted to please people. But obey like slaves who belong to Christ, who have a deep desire to do what God wants them to do.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we have not stopped praying for you since the day we heard about you. We ask ⌞God⌟ to fill you with the knowledge of his will through every kind of spiritual wisdom and insight.

Colossians 3:3

You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, a servant of Christ Jesus from your city, greets you. He always prays intensely for you. He prays that you will continue to be mature and completely convinced of everything that God wants.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Whatever happens, give thanks, because it is God’s will in Christ Jesus that you do this.

Hebrews 13:21

May this God of peace prepare you to do every good thing he wants. May he work in us through Jesus Christ to do what is pleasing to him. Glory belongs to Jesus Christ forever. Amen.

James 1:18

God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures.

1 Peter 1:14

Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.

1 Peter 2:1

So get rid of every kind of evil, every kind of deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

1 John 2:17

the world and its evil desires are passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever.