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.”
9. Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.
10. As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of the many-sided grace of God.
11. Whoever speaks, let it be as one speaking the utterances of God. Whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies. So in all things may God be glorified through Messiah Yeshua—all glory and power to Him forever and ever! Amen.