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1 Peter 4:2

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.

KJV

εἰς τὸ μηκέτι ἀνθρώπων ἐπιθυμίαις ἀλλὰ θελήματι θεοῦ τὸν ἐπίλοιπον ἐν σαρκὶ βιῶσαι χρόνον.

Greek NT

ut jam non desideriis hominum, sed voluntati Dei, quod reliquum est in carne vivat temporis.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βιόω
bioo
verb · 1×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θέλημα
thelema
noun · 62×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
μηκέτι
meketi
adverb · 23×
σάρξ
sarx
noun · 147×
χρόνος
chronos
noun · 54×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπίλοιπος
epiloipos
adjective · 1×
ἐπιθυμία
epithumia
noun · 38×
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • 1Cor 5:8 — Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
  • 1Cor 6:11 — And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
  • 1John 2:16 — For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
  • 1John 2:17 — And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
  • 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
  • 1Pet 2:11 — Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1Pet 2:15 — For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
  • 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
  • 1Thess 5:18 — In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
  • 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2Cor 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
  • 2Cor 12:21 — And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which
  • 2Pet 1:4 — Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  • Acts 26:20 — But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
  • Col 1:9 — For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
  • Col 3:7 — In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
  • Eccl 2:2 — I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
  • Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Eph 2:3 — Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
  • Eph 4:22 — That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
  • Eph 5:7 — Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
  • Eph 5:17 — Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
  • Eph 6:6 — Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Eph 6:6 — Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • Gen 38:26 — And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 12:1 — Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
  • Heb 13:21 — Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Hos 6:7 — But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
  • Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  • John 7:17 — If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
  • Jude 1:16 — These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.