1 SINCE, then, Christ suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

2 so that he does not go on living what remains of his time in the flesh according to human passions, but according to God's will.

3 The time that has passed was enough to spend doing the will of the Gentiles, when you went on in indecencies, passions, hard drinking, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries.

4 In these they think it strange that you are not running with them to the same excess of profligacy, and they slander you.

5 But they will have to give account to him who holds himself ready to judge the living and the dead.