1 Peter 4:1

If then the Messiah hath suffered for you in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind: for every one that is dead in his body, hath ceased from all sins,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

In Context

2that he may no longer be alive to the lusts of men, while he is in the body, but only to do the pleasure of God.

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Cross References

Mark 3:3And he said to the man of the withered hand: Stand up in the midst.

Romans 6:7for he that is dead to it, is emancipated from sin.

Romans 13:12The night now passeth away, and the day draweth near. Let us therefore cast from us the works of darkness; and let us put on the armor of light.

Galatians 5:24And they who are of the Messiah, have crucified their flesh, with all its passions and its cravings.

Philippians 2:5And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought;

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 →

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