The Time for Behaving Like the Gentiles is Past

Therefore, because[a] Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God. For the time that has passed was sufficient to do what the Gentiles desire to do[b], having lived in licentiousness, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:1 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“suffered”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Peter 4:3 Literally “to do the intention of the Gentiles”