3. For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to carry out the desire of the pagans—living in indecency, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, wild parties, and lawless idolatries.
4. They are surprised that you do not run with them into the same riot of recklessness, and they vilify you.
5. But they will have to give an account to the One who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
6. For this was the reason the Good News was proclaimed even to those now dead, so that though they are judged in the flesh before humans, they might live in the Ruach before God.
7. Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for prayer.
8. Above all, keep your love for one another constant, for “love covers a multitude of sins.”