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Good Stewards of God’s Grace

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves with the same thought, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,[b] so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer by human passions but by the will of God. Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:1 Other ancient authorities add for us; some for you
  2. 4.1 ceased from sin: Peter means that a continual acceptance of suffering is incompatible with a proneness to sin.

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