¹Therefore, since the Messiah suffered physically, you too are to arm yourselves with the same attitude. For whoever has suffered physically is finished with sin,

²with the result that he lives the rest of his earthly life no longer controlled by human desires, but by God’s will.

³For you have spent enough time already living the way the pagans want you to live — in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties and forbidden idol-worship.

⁴They think it strange that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of dissoluteness, and so they heap insults on you.

⁵But they will have to give an account to him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

⁶This is why he was proclaimed to those who have died; it was so that, although physically they would receive the judgment common to all humanity, they might live by the Spirit in the way that God has provided.

⁷The accomplishing of the goal of all things is close at hand. Therefore, keep alert and self-controlled, so that you can pray.

⁸More than anything, keep loving each other actively; because love covers many sins.

⁹Welcome one another into your homes without grumbling.

¹⁰As each one has received some spiritual gift, he should use it to serve others, like good managers of God’s many-sided grace —

¹¹if someone speaks, let him speak God’s words; if someone serves, let him do so out of strength that God supplies; so that in everything God may be glorified through Yeshua the Messiah — to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen .

¹²Dear friends, don’t regard as strange the fiery ordeal occurring among you to test you, as if something extraordinary were happening to you.

¹³Rather, to the extent that you share the fellowship of the Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice; so that you will rejoice even more when his Sh’khinah is revealed.

¹⁴If you are being insulted because you bear the name of the Messiah, how blessed you are! For the Spirit of the Sh’khinah , that is, the Spirit of God, is resting on you!

¹⁵Let none of you suffer for being a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or a meddler in other people’s affairs.

¹⁶But if anyone suffers for being Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears this name.

¹⁷For the time has come for the judgment to begin. It begins with the household of God; and if it starts with us, what will the outcome be for those who are disobeying God’s Good News? —

¹⁸“If the righteous is barely delivered,

where will the ungodly and sinful end up?”

¹⁹So let those who are suffering according to God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator by continuing to do what is good.