¹ Since, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, do you also ever arm yourselves with the same mind (because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin), ² so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God. ³ For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship. ⁴ They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you. ⁵ But they must render account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.