^{3 Ref} For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

^{4 Ref} They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

^{5 Ref} who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

^{6 Ref} For to this end was the Gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

^{7 Ref} But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.