1 Peter 4:2

Weymouth NT

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

Cross References

Matthew 12:50

To obey my Father who is in Heaven–that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother.«

Matthew 20:4

To these also he said, »`You also, go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.'

Matthew 21:31

Which of the two did as his father desired?« »The first,« they said. `I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, «that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.

Matthew 7:21

»Not every one who says to me, `Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.«

Mark 3:35

»Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother –my sister– and my mother.«

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of men's hearts, their evil purposes proceed–fornication, theft, murder, adultery,

John 1:13

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

John 7:17

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

Romans 12:2

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is–that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

Romans 14:7

For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself.

Romans 6:11

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:2

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Romans 7:4

So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

2 Corinthians 5:15

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

Ephesians 2:3

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Ephesians 5:17

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

Ephesians 6:6

Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

Colossians 3:3

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm–Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

Hebrews 13:21

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

James 1:18

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

1 Peter 1:14

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:1

Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking.

1 John 2:17

And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.