1 Peter 4:2 Cross References - Riverside

² so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will.

²¹ "Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is 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 the will of his father?" They said, "The last." Jesus said to them, "I tell you truly the tax collectors and the bad women are going before you into the kingdom of God.

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

²¹ for from within, out of the hearts of men, come evil thoughts, unchastities, thefts, murders,

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

¹⁷ Jesus answered them, "If any one wills to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking out of my own mind.

² Never. How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

¹¹ So you must think yourselves dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

⁴ So, my brethren, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ, that you might become wedded to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

² Do not follow the fashions of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your minds so as to recognize what is the good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

⁷ For no one of us is living for himself and no one dies for himself.

¹⁵ and he died for all that the living may no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁹ For I through law died to law that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ. I am living, yet no longer I, but Christ is living in me. The life that I am now living in flesh I am living by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest.

¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind,

²² that you should put away the old man who belonged to your former way of life and was perishing in deluding passions, ²³ and that you should be made new in the spirit of your minds ²⁴ and put on the new man formed as God approves in the righteousness and holiness of truth.

⁷ Do not, then, be partakers with them. ⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light —

¹⁷ Therefore do not be thoughtless, but understand what is the Lord's will.

⁶ not with eye service as pleasers of men, but as Christ's slaves, doing the will of God in a whole-souled way,

⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight,

⁷ To them you also were once habituated when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you also must put away all wrath, anger, malice, abusive language. Vile talk must not be in your mouths.

¹² Epaphras, the servant of Christ Jesus, who is one of you, sends his greetings to you. He always wrestles in prayer on your behalf that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

¹⁸ In everything give thanks, for this is God's will in Christ for you.

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal." ⁸ That is a trustworthy saying. I wish you to insist on these things so that those who have put their faith in God may give earnest attention to honorable work. These things are honorable and also useful to men.

²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁸ Of his own will he made us his children through the message of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance,

¹ THEN lay aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and every kind of slander,

¹⁴ or to governors as those sent by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the praise of those who do good. ¹⁵ For this is the will of God — that by doing good we shall silence the ignorance of thoughtless men.

¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever.