MODERN LITERAL VERSION

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 by you*, that you are not running with them into the same outpouring of riotousness, blaspheming you*;
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.
4:8 But before all things, having the intense love* *for yourselves, because love* will hide 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 grace s of God.
4:11 If anyone is speaking, speak as the oracles of God; if anyone is serving, serve as from the strength as 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*, happening 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 Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you*. He is indeed 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, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this respect.
4:17 Because the time has come for judgment to begin from the house of God and if it begins first from us, what will be the end of those who are disobedient to 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 good doing.