1 Peter 4:2 Cross References - Goodspeed

² and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.

⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

³¹ Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They said, "The second one." Jesus said to them, "I tell you, the tax-collectors and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God ahead of you.

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

²¹ For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery,

¹³ owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

¹⁷ Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

² Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

¹¹ So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

⁴ So you, in turn, my brothers, in the body of Christ have become dead as far as the Law is concerned, so that you may belong to another husband, who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

⁷ None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;

¹⁵ and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

¹⁹ For it is through the Law that I have become dead to the Law, so that I may live for God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

³ We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

¹⁷ So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

²² You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. ²³ You must adopt a new attitude of mind, ²⁴ and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

⁷ Therefore have nothing to do with them. ⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

¹⁷ So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

⁶ not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.

⁹ That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

⁷ And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life. ⁸ But now you too must put them all aside—anger, rage, spite, rough, abusive talk—these must be banished from your lips.

¹² Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

¹⁸ Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another. ⁴ But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, ⁵ he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit, ⁶ which he has poured out upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope. ⁸ This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

²¹ fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸ Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

¹ Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

¹⁴ and to governors, as sent by him to punish evil-doers, and to encourage those who do right. ¹⁵ For it is the will of God that by doing right you should silence the ignorant charges of foolish people.

¹⁷ and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.