Rock's First Letter, Chapter 4
{4:1} Forasmuch then as Messiah suffered for us in the flesh, arm
yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the
flesh has ceased from sin; {4:2} that you no longer should live the
rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will
of God. {4:3} For we have spent enough of our past time living in
doing the desire of the Goyim, and to have walked in lewdness, lusts,
drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. {4:4}
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same
excess of riot, blaspheming: {4:5} who will give account to him who is
ready to judge the living and the dead. {4:6} For to this end was the
Good News preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed
as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit. {4:7} But the
end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind,
self-controlled, and sober in prayer. {4:8} And above all things be
earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of
sins. {4:9} Be hospitable one to another without grumbling. {4:10}
According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among
yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.
{4:11} If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any
man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in
all things God may be glorified through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom
belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amein.
{4:12} Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has
come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
{4:13} But because you are partakers of Messiah's sufferings, rejoice;
that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with
exceeding joy. {4:14} If you are insulted for the name of Messiah,
blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
{4:15} For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an
evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters. {4:16} But if one
of you suffers for being a Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let
him glorify God in this matter. {4:17} For the time has come for
judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first with us,
what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God? {4:18}
"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the
ungodly and the sinner?" {4:19} Therefore let them also who suffer
according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him,
as to a faithful Creator.
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