1 Peter 4:2 Cross References - MLV

² that you should no longer have your life, (the rest of your time in the flesh), in the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

¹⁰ Teach me to do your will, because you are my God. Your Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.

⁷ But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is practicing the will of my Father, the one in the heavens.

⁵⁰ For whoever practices the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother and sister and mother.

³¹ Which one out of the two did the will of his father?
They say, The first.
Jesus says to them, Assuredly I am saying to you, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes will precede you into the kingdom of God.

³⁵ For whoever is practicing the will of God, this one is my brother and sister and mother.

²¹ For evil reasonings travel from inside, out of the heart of men, such as : adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

¹³ who were born, not from bloods, nor from the will of the flesh, nor from the will of man, but from God.

¹⁷ If anyone is willing to practice his will, he will know concerning the teaching, of what sort it is, whether from God or I speak from myself.

² Let it not happen! We who died to sin, how will we live in it any longer?

¹¹ So you also, count yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁴ So-then my brethren, you were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; that you should become joined to a different one, that is to the one who was raised up from the dead, in order that we might bear-fruit to God.

² And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your mind, that you may be proving in you what is the will of God: the good and acceptable and mature.

⁷ For none of us is living to himself, and none dies to himself.

¹⁵ and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and rose again on their behalf.

¹⁹ For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God.
²⁰ I have been crucified together with Christ. I am now no longer living, but Christ is living in me and that life which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith, the faith which is of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up on my behalf.

³ among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the mind and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest.

¹⁷ Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you are to walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind,

²² to place away from yourselves the old man, according to your former conduct, the one who is corrupted according to the lusts of deception; ²³ and to be young again in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to have clothed yourselves with the new man, who was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

⁷ Therefore do not become joint partakers with them. ⁸ For you were previously in darkness, but now you^\'b0 are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

¹⁷ Because of this, do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

⁶ not according to eye-service, like men-pleasers, but like bondservants of the Christ, practicing the will of God from your soul;

⁹ Because of this, we also do not cease praying and asking on your behalf from the day we heard it, in order that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and intelligence,

⁷ among whom you also previously walked, when you were living in these things. ⁸ But also now, place all these things away from yourselves: anger, fury, malice, blasphemy, obscene speech from your mouth.

¹² Epaphras, a bondservant of Christ, the one from you, greets you. He is always fighting on your behalf in his prayers, in order that you might stand complete and having been fulfilled in all the will of God.

¹⁸ Give-thanks in everything; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

³ For we were also previously foolish, disobedient, being misled, serving in various lusts and sensual-delights, leading lives in malice and envy, spiteful, hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love of mankind had appeared: ⁵ he saved us (not from any works done in righteousness, which we practiced), but according to his mercy, through the full-washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; ⁷ in order that we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life, having been made righteous in that grace. ⁸ Faithful is the word: and I will for you to confidently confirm concerning these things, in order that those who have believed God may be anxious to establish themselves first in good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

²¹ may he complete you in every good work, that you should practice his will, doing what is well pleasing in his sight in you, through Jesus Christ in whom is the glory, forevermore. Amen.

¹⁸ Having willed it, he gave-birth to us with the word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of his created things.

¹⁴ like children of obedience not fashioning yourselves in your former lusts in the time of your ignorance;

¹ Therefore having placed away from yourselves all malice and all treachery, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanders,

¹⁴ or to governors, as they are sent through him for vengeance on evildoers and praise to the doers of good. ¹⁵ Because so is the will of God, doing good things to hush the ignorance of foolish men;

¹⁷ And the world is passing away and its lust, but he who is practicing the will of God abides forever.