1 Peter 4:2 Cross References - ACV

² in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy 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 every man who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father in the heavens.

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

³¹ Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to him, The first. Jesus says to them, Truly I say to you, that the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

³⁵ For whoever may do the will of God, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

¹³ who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

¹⁷ If any man wants to do his will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or I speak from myself.

² May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

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

⁴ Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

² And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewal of your mind, for ye to approve what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

⁷ For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.

¹⁵ And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

¹⁹ For I, through law, died to law, so that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in the Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

²² for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

⁷ Do not become ye therefore partakers with them. ⁸ For ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

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

⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

⁹ Because of this we also, from the day that we heard, cease not praying for you and making request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

⁷ in which ye also once walked when ye lived in them. ⁸ But now ye also, put off all these things: anger, wrath, wickedness, reviling, filthy speaking out of your mouth.

¹² Epaphras, the bondman of Christ from you, salutes you, always striving for you in prayers, so that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God.

¹⁸ In everything express thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

³ For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other. ⁴ But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared, ⁵ he saved us, not of works in righteousness that we did, but according to his mercy through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he poured out upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Savior. ⁷ So that, having been made righteous by the grace of that man, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. ⁸ Faithful is the saying. And I want thee to strongly insist about these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to manage good works. These things are good and beneficial to men.

²¹ may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁸ Having deliberated, he begot us by the word of truth for us to be a certain first fruit of his creatures.

¹⁴ As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

¹ Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

¹⁴ or to governors as being sent by him for vengeance of evildoers and praise of well-doers. ¹⁵ Because this way is the will of God, doing good to muzzle the ignorance of the foolish men.

¹⁷ And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.