For this is the reason the gospel was proclaimed even to the dead, so that, though they had been judged in the flesh as everyone is judged, they might live in the spirit as God does. But they will have to give an accounting to him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme. You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry. Since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin), so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God. "therefore I will hope in him." The Response Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, The thought of my affliction and my homelessness He has walled me about so that I cannot escape He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! That you would conceal me until your wrath is past, Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake So mortals lie down and do not rise again If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,Īnd put forth branches like a young plant. That they may enjoy, like laborers, their days. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?Īnd the number of their months is known to you,Īnd you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass, Job said, "A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,
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