2So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.
3Because 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;
4And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:
5But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.
6For 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.
7But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
8And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:
