4 ¹ Remembering that Christ endured bodily suffering, you must arm yourselves with a temper of mind like his. When a man has thus endured bodily suffering he has finished with sin, 4 ² and for the rest of his days on earth he may live, not for the things that men desire, but for what God wills. 4 ³ You had time enough in the past to do all the things that men want to do in the pagan world. Then you lived in licence and debauchery, drunkenness, revelry, and tippling, and the forbidden worship of idols. 4 ⁴ Now, when you no longer plunge with them into all this reckless dissipation, they cannot understand it, and they vilify you accordingly; 4 ⁵ but they shall answer for it to him who stands ready to pass judgement on the living and the dead. 4 ⁶ Why was the Gospel preached to those who are dead? In order that, although in the body they received the sentence common to men, they might in the spirit be alive with the life of God.

4 ⁷ The end of all things is upon us, so you must lead an ordered and sober life, given to prayer. 4 ⁸ Above all, keep your love for one another at full strength, because love cancels innumerable sins. 4 ⁹ Be hospitable to one another without complaining. 4 ¹⁰ Whatever gift each of you may have received, use it in service to one another, like good stewards dispensing the grace of God in its varied forms. 4 ¹¹ Are you a speaker? Speak as if you uttered oracles of God. Do you give service? Give it as in the strength which God supplies.
In all things so act that the glory may be God's through Jesus Christ;
to him belong glory and power for ever and ever.
Amen.