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Keep Fervent in Your Love
Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy — their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.
Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you.
In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;
But remember that they will have to face God, who stands ready to judge everyone, both the living and the dead.
but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God.
The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers.
The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.
Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.
Be hospitable to one another without complaint.
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Suffering for Being a Christian
Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.
Share the Sufferings of Christ
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;
Instead, be very glad — for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.
but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing, so that also at the revelation of His glory you may rejoice with exultation.
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs.
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;
But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name!
but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he is not to be ashamed, but is to glorify God in this name.
For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News?
For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
AND IF IT IS WITH DIFFICULTY THAT THE RIGHTEOUS IS SAVED, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE GODLESS MAN AND THE SINNER?