1 Peter 4:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

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  • Eph 4:22-24 : 22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit; 23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind, 24 And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.
  • Titus 3:3-8 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit, 6 Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
  • Rom 6:11 : 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 14:7 : 7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Mark 3:35 : 35 Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Mark 7:21 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,
  • John 1:13 : 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
  • Ps 143:10 : 10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
  • Hos 6:7 : 7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
  • Matt 7:21 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
  • Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Matt 21:31 : 31 Which of the two did his father's pleasure? They say, The first. Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that tax-farmers and loose women are going into the kingdom of God before you.
  • Eph 5:7-8 : 7 Have no part with such men; 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
  • Eph 6:6 : 6 Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;
  • Col 1:9 : 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
  • Col 3:7-8 : 7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things. 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
  • 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
  • Gal 2:19-20 : 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God. 20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
  • 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
  • 1 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well. 15 Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
  • 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

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    3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 1 Pet 4:1
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    1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

  • Rom 13:14
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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

  • Rom 6:10-13
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    10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3 For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

    4 So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Eph 4:22-23
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    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

    23 And be made new in the spirit of your mind,

  • Gal 5:24
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    24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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    11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • Titus 2:12
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    12 Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Col 3:5
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    5 Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

  • 1 John 2:16-17
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    16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

    17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • 2 Cor 5:15-16
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    15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

    16 For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

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    3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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    2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

  • Rom 6:6
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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

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    4 A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 6:19
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    19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

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    23 These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

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    24 Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

  • Col 3:7
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    7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

  • 2 Cor 4:10-11
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    10 In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

    11 For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

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    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • Gal 2:19
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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Col 2:20
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    20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • 2 Cor 10:3
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    3 For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

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    18 Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

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    4 For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.