1. Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
2. that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3. For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
4. wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: