1 Peter 4:1
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Study Note
Study Note
The command 'arm yourselves likewise with the same mind' — where Christ's suffering in the flesh is the weapon to be taken up — employs military metaphor to describe christological conformation: the mind that accepted suffering rather than sinful evasion is the believer's primary defensive resource. The theological claim 'he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin' has generated interpretive debate: it may mean that the one who has suffered for Christ has demonstrably broken with the old way of life, or that suffering is the context in which sinful self-will is mortified. Either reading maintains the connection between suffering and sanctification that is central to the Petrine letters' pastoral strategy: suffering is not merely endured but is instrumentalized within God's sanctifying purposes. The verse is important for Christian ascetic traditions that have linked bodily difficulty to spiritual formation.
Other Translations
Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,
So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;
Cross References
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, …
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from …
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which …
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and …
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: