Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
1 Peter 4:2 - Modern King James Version in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh. 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 into the land of uprightness.
But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there.
For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.
And he said to them, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.
Which of the two did the will of his father? They said to Him, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that the tax-collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.
For whoever does the will of God, the same is My brother and My sister and My mother.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.
If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.
Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.
and He died for all, that the living ones may live no more to themselves, but to Him who died for them and having been raised.
among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in 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 Christ Jesus concerning you.
make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Of His own will He brought us forth with the Word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruit of His creatures.
as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,
Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.