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

¹ Since the Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also armed with the same thought; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God. ³ For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with them to the same unchecked dissolution; ⁵ the same shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.