More Precious Than Gold

1 Peter

Helen Pocock

Chapter 4

Living for God


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Christ suffered while he was in his human body. Each one of you Christians must be ready to suffer as he did. If you suffer as a Christian it shows that you do not want to *sin any more. v2 You will do what God wants for the rest of your life on earth. v3 In the past you spent enough time doing evil things. Then you were behaving in the same way as people who are not Christians. You followed your evil desires. You took part in wrong acts of sex. You drank too much alcohol. You went to noisy parties and ate and drank too much. You had fights. You even *worshipped *idols. v4 Now you surprise your former friends because you refuse to behave the same way as they do. So now they curse you. v5 But they will have to answer to God. He judges the people who are alive and those who have died. v6 This is why the good news of Jesus has reached people who are now dead. After God judges them for what they have done in this life, their spirits will live with God.

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