Modern Literal Version
[1 Peter 4]

     4:1 Therefore Christ having suffered on our behalf who are in the flesh, you* also arm yourselves with the same mind, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 4:2 *that* you should no longer have your life, (the rest of your* time in the flesh), in the lusts of men, but in the will of God. 4:3 For* the time which has passed away from our life is enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles and to have conducted-ourselves in unbridled-lusts, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinking-bouts and illegal idolatries; 4:4 in which they are surprised byyou*, that you are not running with them into the same outpouring of riotousness, blasphemingyou*; 4:5 who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 4:6 For* to this end the good-news was proclaimed even to the dead, that* they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but may live according to God in the Spirit.


     4:7 But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore, be sensible and be sober to prayers. 4:8But before all things, having the intense love* *for yourselves, because love* will cover a multitude of sins. 4:9 Be hospitable to one another without murmurings; 4:10 just-as each has received a gift*, serving it among yourselves, as good stewards of the various graces of God. 4:11 If anyone is speaking, speak as the oracles of God; if anyone is serving, serve as from the strength which God is supplying; that* God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ: to whom is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.


     4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised by the fiery ordeal among you* which has happened to you* *for a test, as though a strange thing is befalling to you*. 4:13 But just-as you* are sharing in the sufferings of Christ with us, rejoice, that* in the revelation of his glory, you* may also rejoice, being glad. 4:14 If you* are reproached in the name of Christ, you* are fortunate, because the Spiritof glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you*. He is blasphemed according to their part, but he is glorified according to your part. 4:15 For* do not let any of you* suffer like a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or like a meddler in the affairs of others. 4:16 But if a man suffers as a Christian, do not let him be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this respect. 4:17 Because the time has come forjudgment to begin from the house of God and if it begins first from us, what will be the end of those who are disobeying the good-news of God? 4:18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? 4:19 So-then let them who also suffer according to the will of God as to a faithful Creator be intrusting their souls in doing good.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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