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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 were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the time.

Ezek. 44:6• (Ezek. 44:6)

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Ezek. 45:9• (Ezek. 45:9)

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

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Rom. 8:12‑13• ¹²So then, brethren, debtors we are 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 mortify 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 were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

to have.

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

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Deut. 12:30‑31• (Deut. 12:30‑31)

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Rom. 1:20‑32• ²⁰For the invisible things of him from [the] world's creation are perceived, being understood by the works, both his eternal power and Godhead, that they might be inexcusable.
²¹Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
²²Professing to be wise, they became fools,
²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures].
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness so that their bodies were dishonoured among them;
²⁵which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen.
²⁶On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
²⁷and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.
²⁸And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that 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 that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:2‑3)

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

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1 Thess. 4:5• ⁵not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God; (1 Thess. 4:5)

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Titus 3:3• ³For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)

lasciviousness.

Mark 7:22• ²²thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (Mark 7:22)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (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, as being past remorse, have given themselves up to lasciviousness unto [the] working of every uncleanness with greediness. (Eph. 4:19)

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Jude 4• ⁴For certain men have crept in unawares. They, who before of old were ordained to this sentence, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 4)

excess.

2 Sam. 13:28• (2 Sam. 13:28)

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Prov. 23:29‑35• (Prov. 23:29‑35)

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Isa. 5:11• (Isa. 5:11)

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Isa. 28:7• (Isa. 28:7)

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Eph. 5:18• ¹⁸And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, 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 forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:21)

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1 Kings 21:26• (1 Kings 21:26)

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2 Chron. 15:8• (2 Chron. 15:8)

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Isa. 65:4• (Isa. 65:4)

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Jer. 16:18• (Jer. 16:18)

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Rev. 17:4‑5• ⁴And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication,
⁵and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, 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;

WK Translation Notes

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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.