1 Peter 4:1
Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:16Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Mark 3:3And he says to the man who had a withered hand, Stand up in the midst.
Romans 6:7For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.
Romans 13:12The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.
Galatians 5:24And those of the Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and the lusts.
Philippians 2:5Indeed have this way to think in you, that also was in Christ Jesus,
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:1
The work of a Christian is twofold—doing the will of God and suffering his pleasure. This chapter directs us in both. The duties we are here exhorted to employ ourselves in are the mortification of sin, living to God, sobriety, prayer, charity, hospitality, and the best improvement of our talents, which the apostle presses upon Christians from the consideration of the time they have lost in their sins, and the approaching end of all things, ver. 1-11 . The directions for sufferings are that we should not be… Read the whole commentary →