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1 Peter 4:3

You have spent enough time doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, drunken celebrations, having wild parties, and committing disgusting acts of idolatry.

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2As a result, such a person, for the rest of his time in the flesh, no longer lives for men's desires, but for God's will.

4They think it is strange that you do not join with them in these floods of reckless behavior, so they speak evil about you.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:28Absalom commanded his servants saying, “Listen closely. When Amnon begins to be affected by the wine, and when I say to you, 'Attack Amnon,' then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and brave.”

2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and drove away the disgusting things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt Yahweh's altar, which was in front of the portico of Yahweh's house.

Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to obtain strong drink, 1 those who linger late into the night until wine inflames them. 1

Isaiah 65:4They sit among the graves and keep watch all night, 1 and eat pork with the broth of foul meat in their dishes. 1

Ezekiel 44:6Then say to the rebellious ones, the house of Israel, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Let all of your disgusting actions be enough for you, house of Israel—

Mark 7:22adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, folly.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 4:2-4

The Mortification of Sin. ( a. d. 66.) 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: The… Read the whole commentary →

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