^{2 Ref} So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

^{3 Ref} Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

^{4 Ref} And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

^{5 Ref} But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.

^{6 Ref} For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

^{7 Ref} But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

^{8 Ref} And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

^{2 Ref} no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

^{3 Ref} for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

^{4 Ref} in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

^{5 Ref} who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,

^{6 Ref} for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

^{7 Ref} And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

^{8 Ref} and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;