003:018 because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, 003:019 in which He also went and proclaimed His Message to the spirits that were in prison, 003:020 who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons-- eight in number--were brought safely through the water. 003:021 And, corresponding to that figure, the water of baptism now saves you-- not the washing off of material defilement, but the craving of a good conscience after God--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 003:022 who is at God's right hand, having gone into Heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him. 004:001 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-- 004:002 that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God. 004:003 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. 004:004 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. 004:005 But they will have to give account to Him who stands ready to pronounce judgement on the living and the dead. 004:006 For it is with this end in view that the Good News was proclaimed even to some who were dead, that they may be judged, as all mankind will be judged, in the body, but may be living a godly life in the spirit. 004:007 But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer. 004:008 Above all continue to love one another fervently, for love throws a veil over a multitude of faults. 004:009 Extend ungrudging hospitality towards one another. 004:010 Whatever be the gifts which each has received, you must use them for one another's benefit, as good stewards of God's many-sided kindness. 004:011 If any one preaches, let it be as uttering God's truth; if any one renders a service to others, let it be in the strength which God supplies; so that in everything glory may be given to God in the name of Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the might to the Ages of the Ages. Amen.