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),

For, All flesh is grass And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass fades, The flower falls,

I beseech you, beloved, as pilgrims and exiles, to abstain from passions of the flesh that war upon your souls.

because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

Baptism, the counterpart of that, now saves you (not the washing off of the filth of the flesh, but the prayer for a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

so that in future you may not spend your life in the flesh according to men's desires, but in the will of God.

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.