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

¹ Therefore, since Christ has suffered physically, you people should fortify yourselves with the same attitude He had. For the person who has suffered physically [i.e., in standing for Christ] has quit sinning. ² So then, you should no longer live the rest of your lives [to satisfy] the sinful desires of your body, but to do what God wants. ³ For the time you have [already] spent in the past [i.e., as Gentile unbelievers] was long enough to have practiced unrestrained, indecent conduct, improper sexual cravings, riotous living, wild parties, drunken orgies and disgusting idol worship. ⁴ Now, those people you used to run around with cannot understand why you have stopped living such wasteful lives, so they just "badmouth" you. ⁵ But, they will have to answer to God, who will judge both those who are now alive and those who have already died, [for the way they have lived]. ⁶ This is the purpose that the Gospel was preached to those who have died physically [for the faith]: It was so that, even though they had been judged physically [i.e., by suffering death at the hands of men], they could still live spiritually in the presence of God.