The depraved human heart has a selfish, earth-centred, now-oriented focus, which is the dead end, narrow worldview of the spiritually unborn (see on 1 Peter 1:3). In 1 Peter 4:3 Peter will list some of the present-day expressions of this focus. The word “for” (or by
) underscores the thought that “human passions” are the driving force of the unborn. Peter will provide examples of such passions in 1 Peter 4:3.
2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.