1 Peter 4:2

New American Bible - revised edition

so as not to spend what remains of one’s life in the flesh on human desires, but on the will of God.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance

Ephesians 6:6

not only when being watched, as currying favor, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Romans 6:11

Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:15

He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.

Romans 6:2

How can we who died to sin yet live in it?

Ephesians 4:17

So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Romans 14:7

None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your kind spirit guide me on ground that is level.

John 7:17

Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.

Mark 7:21

From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,

Mark 3:35

[For] whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Hosea 6:7

But they, at Adam, violated the covenant; there they betrayed me.

1 John 2:17

Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever. Antichrists.

James 1:18

He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Doers of the Word.

Hebrews 13:21

furnish you with all that is good, that you may do his will. May he carry out in you what is pleasing to him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever [and ever]. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:9

Therefore, from the day we heard this, we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.

Romans 12:2

Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. Many Parts in One Body.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

John 1:13

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did his father’s will?” They answered, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Matthew 7:21

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras sends you greetings; he is one of you, a slave of Christ [Jesus], always striving for you in his prayers so that you may be perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Colossians 3:3

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

Matthew 20:4

and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’