1 Peter 4:8-18

8Above all, maintain constant love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.

9Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

10Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve others, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

11If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides, so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

12Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you, as if something unusual were happening to you.

13Instead, rejoice as you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may also rejoice with great joy when his glory is revealed.

14If you are ridiculed for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

15Let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

16But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed but let him glorify God in having that name.

17For the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

18And if a righteous person is saved with difficulty, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?