1. Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also should be armed with the same intention. For he who suffers in the flesh desists from sin,
2. so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.
3. For the time that has passed is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, those who have walked in luxuries, lusts, intoxication, feasting, drinking, and the illicit worship of idols.
4. About this, they wonder why you do not rush with them into the same confusion of indulgences, blaspheming.