5. They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
6. Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.
7. For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.
8. Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
9. Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
10. Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
11. Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
12. Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.
13. But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.