3 This verse may give the purpose or result of their “arming” themselves as called for in v. 1b and then the translation would be: “so that you may spend the rest of your time …” But it is better to take it as explanatory of the last phrase in v. 1: what it means to be finished with sin.

In other versions

so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

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.

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