1 Peter 4:1-14 ▼

1 Therefore, Christ having suffered in the flesh, you? also arm yourselves with the same mind, because the one having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

2 in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer to men’s lusts, but to the will of God.

3 For the time past is sufficient to have carried out the intent of the Gentiles, having walked in debaucheries, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousings, and unlawful idolatries.

4 In this, they think it strange of you? not running with them into the same overflow of dissipation, slandering,

5 who will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

6 For unto this the gospel was proclaimed even to the dead, so that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but they might live according to God in the spirit.

7 Now the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be sound-minded and be sober unto prayers,

8 before all things having fervent love among yourselves because love covers a multitude of sins,

9 hospitable to one another without grumbling,

10 just as each received a gift, ministering it to each other as good stewards of the manifold grace of God:

11 if anyone speaks, as oracles of God; if anyone ministers, as out of strength that God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power to the ages of the ages. Amen.

12 Beloved, do not think strange the fiery ordeal among you? taking place for a trial to you?, as if a strange thing were happening to you?.

13 But as you? share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also in the revelation of His glory you? may rejoice, exulting.

14 If you? are reproached in the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you?.