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1 Peter 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the timev 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:

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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the time.

Ezek. 44:6• ⁶and say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you of all your abominations, O house of Israel, (Ezek. 44:6)

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Ezek. 45:9• ⁹Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel! Put away violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice; take off your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 45:9)

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Acts 17:30• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent, (Acts 17:30)

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Rom. 8:12‑13• ¹²So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh;
¹³for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live: (Rom. 8:12‑13)

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

to have.

1 Peter 1:14• ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance; (1 Peter 1:14)

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Deut. 12:30‑31• ³⁰take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
³¹Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every thing that is abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burned in the fire to their gods. (Deut. 12:30‑31)

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Rom. 1:20‑32• ²⁰--for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,--so as to render them inexcusable.
²¹Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
²²professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:
²⁵who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;
²⁷and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
²⁸And according as they did not think good to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;
³²who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them. (Rom. 1:20‑32)

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Eph. 2:2‑3• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:2‑3)

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Eph. 4:17• ¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind, (Eph. 4:17)

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1 Thess. 4:5• ⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,) (1 Thess. 4:5)

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Titus 3:3• ³For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

lasciviousness.

Mark 7:22• ²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, a wicked eye, injurious language, haughtiness, folly; (Mark 7:22)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Gal. 5:19• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, (Gal. 5:19)

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Eph. 4:19• ¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. (Eph. 4:19)

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Jude 4• ⁴For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 4)

excess.

2 Sam. 13:28• ²⁸And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then slay him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. (2 Sam. 13:28)

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Prov. 23:29‑35• ²⁹Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
³⁰--They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
³¹Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
³²at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
³⁴and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast:
³⁵--"They have smitten me, and I am not sore; they have beaten me, and I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again." (Prov. 23:29‑35)

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Isa. 5:11• ¹¹Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them! (Isa. 5:11)

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Isa. 28:7• ⁷But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment. (Isa. 28:7)

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Eph. 5:18• ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, (Eph. 5:18)

revellings.

Gal. 5:21• ²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:21)

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1 Kings 21:26• ²⁶And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.) (1 Kings 21:26)

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2 Chron. 15:8• ⁸And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah. (2 Chron. 15:8)

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Isa. 65:4• ⁴who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; (Isa. 65:4)

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Jer. 16:18• ¹⁸But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance. (Jer. 16:18)

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Rev. 17:4‑5• ⁴And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;
⁵and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth. (Rev. 17:4‑5)

• The Apostle, while exhorting to consistency with that holy name, reminds the saints that their Gentile neighbors counted it strange that they did not run the same common race of impure and selfish indulgence, so generally linked with idolatrous customs. Instead of approving the change, they indulged injurious imputations, as the world still does in its form of Christendom. (“1 Peter 4:1-6” by W. Kelly)

• In the earlier part we wrought the will of the nations who never were put under the law of God. Now we are to carry out the will of God. (“1 Peter 4” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

W. Kelly Translation

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For the past timea [is] sufficient to have wrought out the willb of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;

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a

The more ancient MSS. omit "of life."

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The more ancient MSS. have "desire" not "will" as in verse two.