3. For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
4. So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
5. They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
6. Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.