Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
1 Peter 4:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills. American Standard Version (1901) that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Common English Bible As a result, they don’t live the rest of their human lives in ways determined by human desires but in ways determined by God’s will. Catholic Public Domain Version so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men, but according to the will of God. |
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.*
To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.
Which of the two did the will of his father?* They said to him, *The first.* Yeshua said to them, *Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.*
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Messiah, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Messiah, doing the will of God from the heart;
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Messiah, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Messiah Yeshua toward you.
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amein.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.