1 Peter 4:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path.

Hosea 6:7

But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

Matthew 12:50

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

Matthew 20:4

and he said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

Matthew 21:31

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

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.

Mark 3:35

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Mark 7:21

For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder,

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

Romans 12:2

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

Romans 14:7

For we do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves.

Romans 6:11

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:2

By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 6:6

not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 3:3

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, greets you. He is always striving in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, as he works among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.