Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Therefore Arm Yourselves With The Same Intention

4 Therefore, Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm-yourselves with the same intention^[a]. Because the one having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, ² so as to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for^[b] the desires of humans, but for^[c] the will of God. ³ For the time having passed is enough for you to have worked-out the will of the Gentiles, having walked in sensualities, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking-parties and unlawful idolatries, ⁴ in connection with which they are thinking-it-strange that you are not running-with them into the same excess^[d] of wild-living, while they continue blaspheming— ⁵ who shall render an account to the One being ready to judge the living and the dead. ⁶ For to this end it^[e] was announced-as-good-news even to the dead^[f]: that they might be judged according-to^[g] people in the flesh^[h], but be living according to God in the spirit^[i].