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1 Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin-- 2 that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God. 3 For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship. 4 At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you. 1 Peter 4:1-4, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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