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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Peter 4 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_peter/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_peter/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 1 Peter 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_peter/3.htm" title="1 Peter 3">◄</a> 1 Peter 4 <a href="../1_peter/5.htm" title="1 Peter 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_peter/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Living for God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But remember that they will have to face God, who stands ready to judge everyone, both the living and the dead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That is why the Good News was preached to those who are now dead<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a>—so although they were destined to die like all people,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> they now live forever with God in the Spirit.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The end of the world is coming soon. Therefore, be earnest and disciplined in your prayers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.</p><p class="hdg">Suffering for Being a Christian</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> rests upon you.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And also, </p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“If the righteous are barely saved,</p><p class="line2">what will happen to godless sinners?”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a></p><p class="b"/><p class="m"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_peter/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">For the one</span><span class="ft"> [or </span><span class="it">One</span><span class="ft">] </span><span class="it">who has suffered physically has finished with sin.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:6a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">preached even to the dead.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:6b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">so although people had judged them worthy of death.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:6c </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">in spirit.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:14a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">for the glory of God, which is his Spirit.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:14b </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts add </span><span class="it">On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:18 </span><span class="ft">Prov 11:31 (Greek version).</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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