¹Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in the flesh has done with sin, ²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men’s lusts, but to God’s will. ³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you; ⁵who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶For to this end were the glad tidings preached to the dead also, that they might be judged, as regards men, after the flesh, but live, as regards God, after the Spirit.

⁷But the end of all things is drawn nigh: be sober therefore, and be watchful unto prayers; ⁸but before all things having fervent love among yourselves, because love covers a multitude of sins; ⁹hospitable one to another, without murmuring; ¹⁰each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of the various grace of God. ¹¹If any one speak—as oracles of God; if any one minister—as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of ages. Amen.

Read in Logos

Public Domain