1. Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,
2. no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
3. for sufficient to us [is] the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
4. in which they think it strange--your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
5. who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,
6. for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.
7. And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,