The Time for Behaving Like the Gentiles is Past

4 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, ² in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God. ³ 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, ⁴ with respect to which they are surprised when^[c] you do not run with them into the same flood of dissipation, and so they^[d] revile you. ⁵ They^[e] will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ Because for this reason also the gospel was preached to those who are dead, so that they were judged by human standards^[f] in the flesh, but they may live in the spirit by God’s standards^[g].