1 Peter 4

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.

¹²Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;