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Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin

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that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

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wherein they think strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [of]:

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who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

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For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

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above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

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according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God

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if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God is any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.