1. Christ suffered while he was in his body. So you should strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking Christ had. The person who has suffered in his body is finished with sin.
2. Strengthen yourselves so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not doing the evil things that people want.
3. In the past you wasted too much time doing what the non-believers like to do. You lived for the body and evil desires. You were getting drunk, you had wild and drunken parties, and you did wrong by worshiping idols.
4. Non-believers think it is strange that you do not do the many wild and wasteful things that they do. And so they insult you.