1 Peter 4:1-6 - The Time For Behaving Like The Gentiles Is Past

¹ Since, then, Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same determination; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God. ³ For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries. ⁴ They are amazed at this that you run not with them into the same excess of debauchery, and they revile you. ⁵ These shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For this cause, indeed, even those who have died had the gospel preached to them, that though they might be judged according to the will of men in the flesh, yet they might live according to the will of God in the spirit.