--- title: "1 Peter 4 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read 1 Peter 4 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 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 ceas" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/1-peter/4" --- [ Read](/kjv/1-peter/4)[ Commentary](/study/1-peter/4)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-peter/4) Audio 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; 2 That he no longer should live the rest of *his* time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of *our* life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with *them* to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of *you*: 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. 10 As every man hath received the gift, *even so* minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, *let him speak* as the oracles of God; if any man minister, *let him do it* as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy *are ye*; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or *as* a thief, or *as* an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. 16 Yet if *any man suffer* as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time *is come* that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if *it* first *begin* at us, what shall the end *be* of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls *to him* in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. [1 Peter 3](/study/1-peter/3) [1 Peter 5](/study/1-peter/5) ## Commentary To verse 1 The apostle having in the former chapter exhorted believers to patient bearing of afflictions by the example of Christ, [1 Peter 4:18](/kjv/1-peter/4/18), proceeds in this to persuade them to improve the crosses they bore outwardly to inward mortification. Christ’s death is proposed to us in Scripture as an exemplar both of external mortification in bearing reproaches, persecutions, &c., (this the apostle prosecutes in the former chapter), and of internal, in the destroying the body of sin; this he exhorts to in this chapter, and indeed draws his argument from Christ’s death, not only as the exemplary, but efficient and meritorious, cause of our mortification, and which hath a real influence upon it, in that Christ by his death did not only merit the pardon of sin, but the giving the Spirit, whereby corruption might be destroyed, and our natures renewed. **Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us;**viz. not only as an exemplar of patience and submission to the will of God, but for the taking away of sin, both in the guilt and power of it, and that he might be the procurer as well as pattern of our mortification. **In the flesh;**in his human nature, as [1 Peter 3:18](/kjv/1-peter/3/18). **Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind;**strengthen and fortify yourselves against all temptations, and unto the mortification of your lusts, with the consideration of these ends, and the mighty efficacy of Christ’s death, he suffering in his flesh, i.e. in his human nature, that you might suffer in your flesh, i.e. in your sinful, corrupt nature; or, (which comes to the same), **with the same mind** which Christ had, who, in his death, aimed not only at the pardon of your sin, but the destruction of it, and the renovation of your natures: or, *arm yourselves with the same mind,*viz. a purpose of suffering in the flesh, i.e. of dying spiritually with Christ in the mortification of your flesh, [Romans 6:6](/kjv/romans/6/6),[Romans 6:7](/kjv/romans/6/7); as Christ died, and suffered in the flesh, so reckon that you, by the virtue of his death, must die to sin. and crucify your flesh, with its affections and lusts, [Galatians 5:24](/kjv/galatians/5/24); or else, what *the same mind* is, he declares in the following clause. **For;**or rather, that, the Greek word here seems rather to be explicative than causal. **He that hath suffered in the flesh;**i.e. the old man, his corrupt flesh, (*flesh* being taken here in a different sense from what it was in the former part of the verse), he that is spiritually dead with Christ, whose old man is crucified with him. **Hath ceased from sin;**from sinning willingly and delightfully, and yielding himself up to the power of sin; compare [Romans 6:1-23](/kjv/romans/6/1-23), which explains this: what Peter here calls suffering in the flesh, Paul there calls a being dead to sin, [Romans 6:2](/kjv/romans/6/2),[Romans 6:11](/kjv/romans/6/11); and what Peter calls a ceasing from sin, Paul calls a living no longer in sin, [Romans 6:2](/kjv/romans/6/2), and a being freed from it, [Romans 6:7](/kjv/romans/6/7). 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