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href="/bsb/1_peter/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. <a href="/blb/1_peter/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For the time past is sufficient to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having walked in sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and abominable idolatries. <a href="/kjv/1_peter/4.htm">King James Bible</a> 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: <a href="/nkjv/1_peter/4.htm">New King James Version</a> For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. <a href="/nasb_/1_peter/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of indecent behavior, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries. <a href="/nasb/1_peter/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. <a href="/nasb77/1_peter/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. <a href="/lsb/1_peter/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For the time already past is sufficient for you to have worked out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. <a href="/amp/1_peter/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For the time already past is [more than] enough for doing what the [unsaved] Gentiles like to do—living [unrestrained as you have done] in a course of [shameless] sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries. <a href="/csb/1_peter/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry. <a href="/hcsb/1_peter/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry. <a href="/asv/1_peter/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: <a href="/cev/1_peter/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You have already lived long enough like people who don't know God. You were immoral and followed your evil desires. You went around drinking and partying and carrying on. In fact, you even worshiped disgusting idols. <a href="/erv/1_peter/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: <a href="/gwt/1_peter/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods. <a href="/gnt/1_peter/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols. <a href="/isv/1_peter/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> For you spent enough time in the past doing what the gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry. <a href="/msb/1_peter/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For we have spent enough of our past lifetime carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. <a href="/net/1_peter/4.htm">NET Bible</a> For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries. <a href="/nheb/1_peter/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For enough time in the past has been spent doing the will of the unbelievers, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. <a href="/wbt/1_peter/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: <a href="/wey/1_peter/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship. <a href="/web/1_peter/4.htm">World English Bible</a> For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_peter/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> for the time has sufficiently passed to have carried out the will of the nations, having walked in licentiousness, lusts, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, <a href="/blb/1_peter/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For the time past is sufficient to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having walked in sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and abominable idolatries. <a href="/ylt/1_peter/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, <a href="/slt/1_peter/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_peter/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and unlawful worshipping of idols. <a href="/cpdv/1_peter/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For the time that has passed is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, those who have walked in luxuries, lusts, intoxication, feasting, drinking, and the illicit worship of idols. <a href="/nabre/1_peter/4.htm">New American Bible</a> For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry. <a href="/nrsvce/1_peter/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_peter/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For the time past sufficed to have wrought the will of the pagans when you lived in lasciviousness, drunkenness, revellings, indecent singing, and worship of idols. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_peter/4.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> For that past time was enough in which you served the pleasure of The Pagans, in debauchery, drunkenness, in whoredom, in orgies and in the worship of demons.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/1_peter/4.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries. <a href="/godbey/1_peter/4.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries: <a href="/haweis/1_peter/4.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries; <a href="/mace/1_peter/4.htm">Mace New Testament</a> for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters. <a href="/wey/1_peter/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship. <a href="/worrell/1_peter/4.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries; <a href="/worsley/1_peter/4.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> For the time past of our life is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revellings, drunkenness, and abominable idolatries: <a href="/parallel/1_peter/4-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1h9-AlUcaGE?start=727" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_peter/4.htm">Living for God's Glory</a> …2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. 3<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/713.htm" title="713: arketos (Adj-NMS) -- Sufficient, enough. From arkeo; satisfactory.">you have spent enough</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/5550.htm" title="5550: chronos (N-NMS) -- A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay.">time</a> <a href="/greek/3928.htm" title="3928: parelēlythōs (V-RPA-NMS) -- From para and erchomai; to come near or aside, i.e. To approach, go by, perish or neglect, avert.">in the past</a> <a href="/greek/2716.htm" title="2716: kateirgasthai (V-RNM/P) -- From kata and ergazomai; to work fully, i.e. Accomplish; by implication, to finish, fashion.">carrying out</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: to (Art-ANS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the same</a> <a href="/greek/1013.htm" title="1013: boulēma (N-ANS) -- Will, counsel, purpose. From boulomai; a resolve.">desires</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tōn (Art-GNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">as the</a> <a href="/greek/1484.htm" title="1484: ethnōn (N-GNP) -- Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.">Gentiles:</a> <a href="/greek/4198.htm" title="4198: peporeumenous (V-RPM/P-AMP) -- To travel, journey, go, die. ">living</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/766.htm" title="766: aselgeiais (N-DFP) -- From a compound of a and a presumed selges; licentiousness.">debauchery,</a> <a href="/greek/1939.htm" title="1939: epithymiais (N-DFP) -- Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.">lust,</a> <a href="/greek/3632.htm" title="3632: oinophlygiais (N-DFP) -- Drunkenness, debauchery. From oinos and a form of the base of phluaros; an overflow of wine, i.e. Vinolency.">drunkenness,</a> <a href="/greek/2970.htm" title="2970: kōmois (N-DMP) -- A feasting, reveling, carousal. From keimai; a carousal.">orgies,</a> <a href="/greek/4224.htm" title="4224: potois (N-DMP) -- A drinking, carousing. From the alternate of pino; a drinking-bout or carousal.">carousing,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/111.htm" title="111: athemitois (Adj-DFP) -- Illegal, unlawful, criminal, lawless. By implication, flagitious.">detestable</a> <a href="/greek/1495.htm" title="1495: eidōlolatriais (N-DFP) -- Service (worship) of an image (an idol). From eidolon and latreia; image-worship.">idolatry.</a> 4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Romans 13:13</a> Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. <a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm">Ephesians 5:18</a> Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a> The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-7</a> Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. <a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-11</a> Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. / And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. <a href="/titus/3-3.htm">Titus 3:3</a> For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. <a href="/james/4-3.htm">James 4:3-4</a> And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. / You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:3-5</a> For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; <a href="/2_timothy/3-1.htm">2 Timothy 3:1-5</a> But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ... <a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27-28</a> You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. <a href="/mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a> For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.” <a href="/luke/21-34.htm">Luke 21:34</a> But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. <a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm">Proverbs 23:29-35</a> Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? / Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. / Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. ... <a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">Isaiah 28:7-8</a> These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. / For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth. <a href="/jeremiah/9-2.htm">Jeremiah 9:2-6</a> If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. / “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries:the time.<a href="/ezekiel/44-6.htm">Ezekiel 44:6</a> And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,<a href="/ezekiel/45-9.htm">Ezekiel 45:9</a> Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.<a href="/acts/17-30.htm">Acts 17:30</a> And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:to have.<a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm">1 Peter 1:14</a> As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:<a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm">Deuteronomy 12:30,31</a> Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be 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… <a href="/romans/1-20.htm">Romans 1:20-32</a> For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: … lasciviousness.<a href="/mark/7-22.htm">Mark 7:22</a> Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:<a href="/2_corinthians/12-21.htm">2 Corinthians 12:21</a> And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19</a> Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,excess.<a href="/2_samuel/13-28.htm">2 Samuel 13:28</a> Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.<a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm">Proverbs 23:29-35</a> Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? … <a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm">Isaiah 5:11</a> Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!revellings.<a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Galatians 5:21</a> Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.and.<a href="/1_kings/21-26.htm">1 Kings 21:26</a> And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/titus/1-16.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-11.htm">Already</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Carousing</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-2.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/james/2-5.htm">Choose</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-18.htm">Course</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm">Debauchery</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-2.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Drinking</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-7.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/titus/1-7.htm">Drunkenness</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-38.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-18.htm">Excess</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-12.htm">Gentiles</a> <a href="/2_timothy/4-5.htm">Habitual</a> <a href="/james/5-9.htm">Hard</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/21-13.htm">Idolatries</a> <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Idolatry</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-21.htm">Lasciviousness</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">Lewdness</a> <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Licentiousness</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/13-1.htm">Noisy</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Orgies</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-12.htm">Pagans</a> <a href="/galatians/5-20.htm">Parties</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-2.htm">Passions</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-5.htm">Past</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/4-9.htm">Pursued</a> <a href="/titus/1-7.htm">Pursuing</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Revelings</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Revellings</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/10-7.htm">Revelry</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Revels</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-19.htm">Sensuality</a> <a href="/galatians/1-18.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-8.htm">Suffice</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-9.htm">Sufficient</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-2.htm">Time</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm">Unholy</a> <a href="/colossians/3-7.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/titus/2-3.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/james/2-22.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/revelation/17-4.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-12.htm">Already</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">Carousing</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-21.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/exodus/12-5.htm">Choose</a> <a href="/revelation/6-11.htm">Course</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-24.htm">Debauchery</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-17.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-3.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/revelation/8-11.htm">Drinking</a> <a href="/revelation/17-2.htm">Drunken</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-19.htm">Drunkenness</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-4.htm">Excess</a> <a href="/3_john/1-7.htm">Gentiles</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm">Habitual</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-18.htm">Hard</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/21-13.htm">Idolatries</a> <a href="/leviticus/17-7.htm">Idolatry</a> <a href="/jude/1-4.htm">Lasciviousness</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-7.htm">Lewdness</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm">Licentiousness</a> <a href="/psalms/64-2.htm">Noisy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-23.htm">Orgies</a> <a href="/3_john/1-7.htm">Pagans</a> <a href="/exodus/18-16.htm">Parties</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-18.htm">Passions</a> <a href="/2_peter/3-2.htm">Past</a> <a href="/revelation/12-13.htm">Pursued</a> <a href="/genesis/14-15.htm">Pursuing</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Revelings</a> <a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Revellings</a> <a href="/exodus/32-6.htm">Revelry</a> <a href="/galatians/5-21.htm">Revels</a> <a href="/2_peter/2-2.htm">Sensuality</a> <a href="/genesis/21-15.htm">Spent</a> <a href="/leviticus/5-7.htm">Suffice</a> <a href="/exodus/36-5.htm">Sufficient</a> <a href="/1_peter/4-17.htm">Time</a> <a href="/exodus/30-9.htm">Unholy</a> <a href="/1_john/2-6.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/revelation/6-6.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/2_john/1-8.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">1 Peter 4</div>1. <a href="/1_peter/4-1.htm">He exhorts them to cease from sin and live fore God,</a> 12. <a href="/1_peter/4-12.htm">and comforts them against persecution.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div 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The "Gentiles" here refers to non-Jews, often seen as living outside the covenant with God and engaging in practices contrary to His will. The early Christian audience, many of whom were Gentile converts, is reminded of their past life before knowing Christ. This echoes <a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17-19</a>, where Paul urges believers to no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. The call to leave behind former ways is a common theme in the New Testament, emphasizing repentance and the new life in Christ.living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. This list of behaviors represents a lifestyle contrary to Christian values. "Debauchery" and "lust" refer to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, often condemned in Scripture (<a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a>). "Drunkenness" and "orgies" highlight the lack of self-control and moral restraint, which were prevalent in many Greco-Roman social and religious practices. "Carousing" suggests wild, noisy festivities, often associated with pagan worship. "Detestable idolatry" underscores the worship of false gods, a direct violation of the first commandment (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3</a>). These behaviors are contrasted with the fruit of the Spirit (<a href="/galatians/5-22.htm">Galatians 5:22-23</a>), illustrating the radical change expected in a believer's life. The call to abandon such practices is rooted in the holiness God requires of His people, as seen throughout the Old and New Testaments.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/peter.htm">Peter</a> The apostle Peter, one of Jesus' closest disciples, is the author of this epistle. He writes to encourage and instruct believers who are facing persecution. 2. <a href="/topical/g/gentiles.htm">Gentiles</a> In this context, "Gentiles" refers to non-Jews who were often seen as living outside the moral and religious laws of God. Peter uses this term to describe a lifestyle contrary to Christian values. 3. <a href="/topical/e/early_christian_communities.htm">Early Christian Communities</a> The recipients of Peter's letter were early Christians scattered throughout Asia Minor, facing social and religious challenges.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/recognize_the_past.htm">Recognize the Past</a> Acknowledge that before knowing Christ, many lived in ways that were contrary to God's will. This recognition is crucial for understanding the transformation that comes with faith. <a href="/topical/t/transformation_in_christ.htm">Transformation in Christ</a> Embrace the new identity in Christ, which calls for a departure from past sinful behaviors. The Greek word for "desires" (epithymiais) implies strong cravings or longings, which believers are to overcome through the Holy Spirit. <a href="/topical/l/living_as_witnesses.htm">Living as Witnesses</a> Our changed lives serve as a testimony to others. By abstaining from sinful behaviors, Christians can demonstrate the power of the Gospel. <a href="/topical/g/guard_against_temptation.htm">Guard Against Temptation</a> Be vigilant in avoiding situations that may lead back to old habits. This requires a conscious effort to live according to God's standards. <a href="/topical/c/community_support.htm">Community Support</a> Engage with fellow believers for encouragement and accountability. The early church thrived on community, which is vital for spiritual growth and perseverance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_peter_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Peter 4</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_debauchery.htm">What does the Bible say about debauchery?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_lasciviousness_mean.htm">What does lasciviousness mean?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_'revellings'_mean_biblically.htm">What does "revellings" mean in the Bible?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_pagan_revelry.htm">What defines pagan revelry?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_peter/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) For the time past of our life.--There are two words in the English here which do not stand in the true text, and sadly impede the sense. They are "of our life," and "us." The first is added by some scribe to point the contrast with "the rest of his time." The second--which should be "you," if anything at all--is simply put to fill the gap after the word "suffice." If "our life" and "us" were right, we should have St. Peter, quite unlike his wont, identifying himself with the bad life here described, as though he himself had shared in it.May suffice.--It is the same word as in <a href="/matthew/6-34.htm" title="Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.">Matthew 6:34</a>; <a href="/matthew/10-25.htm" title="It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?">Matthew 10:25</a>, and would be, literally, For sufficient is the past. There is an irony in the word similar to that in <a href="/1_peter/3-17.htm" title="For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.">1Peter 3:17</a>, "it is better."To have wrought.--Rather, to have perpetrated. The Greek word denotes the accomplishment of a criminal purpose, as in <a href="/romans/2-9.htm" title="Tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;">Romans 2:9</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/5-3.htm" title="For I truly, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,">1Corinthians 5:3</a>; and one passage more horrid still. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_peter/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 3. - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles; rather, as in the Revised Version, the time past may suffice. The words, "of our life" and "us," are not found in the best manuscripts. St. Peter could not include himself among those who wrought the will of the Gentiles. The Greek word for "will" here is, according to the best manuscripts, βούλημα; in ver. 2 "the will of God" is θέλημα. The general distinction is that θέλω implies choice and purpose, βούλομαι merely inclination (compare, in the Greek, <a href="/philemon/1-13.htm">Philemon 1:13, 14</a>). The change of word seems to point to such a distinction here. God's will is a fixed, holy purpose; the will, or rather wish, of the Gentiles was uncertain inclination, turned this way or that way by changeful lusts. The perfect infinitive, "to have wrought," implies that that part of life ought to be regarded as a thing wholly past and gone. The whole sentence has a tone of solemn irony. "Fastidium peccati apud resipiscentes" (Bengel); comp. <a href="/romans/6-21.htm">Romans 6:21</a>. St. Peter is here addressing Gentile Christians. Fronmüller's objection is peculiar: "Suppose that the readers of Peter's Epistle had formerly been heathens, his reproaching them with having formerly done the will of the Gentiles would surely be singular." They had done the will of the Gentiles; they were now, as Christians, to do the will of God. When we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries; better, as in the Revised Version, and to have walked. There is no pronoun. Lusts are the hidden sins of unclean thought, which lead to outbreaks of lasciviousness. The Greek word for "revellings" (κῶμοι) is one often used of drunken youths parading the streets, or of festal processions in honor of Bacchus. The word translated "banquetings" means rather "drinking-bouts." The word for "abominable" is ἀθεμίτοις, unlawful, nefarious, contrary to the eternal principles of the Divine Law; "quibus sanctissimum Dei jus violatur" (Bengel). St. Peter is probably referring, not only to the sin of idolatry in itself, but also to the many licentious practices connected with it. After the persecution of Nero, in which St. Peter perished, Christianity was regarded by the state as a religio illicita. Christianity was condemned by the law of Rome; idolatry is opposed to the eternal Law of God. This verse could not have been addressed to Hebrew Christians. <a href="/commentaries/1_peter/4-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. [you have spent] enough ἀρκετὸς (arketos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_713.htm">Strong's 713: </a> Sufficient, enough. From arkeo; satisfactory. time χρόνος (chronos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5550.htm">Strong's 5550: </a> A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay. in the past παρεληλυθὼς (parelēlythōs) Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3928.htm">Strong's 3928: </a> From para and erchomai; to come near or aside, i.e. To approach, go by, perish or neglect, avert. carrying out κατειργάσθαι (kateirgasthai) Verb - Perfect Infinitive Middle or Passive <a href="/greek/strongs_2716.htm">Strong's 2716: </a> From kata and ergazomai; to work fully, i.e. Accomplish; by implication, to finish, fashion. the same τὸ (to) Article - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. desires βούλημα (boulēma) Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1013.htm">Strong's 1013: </a> Will, counsel, purpose. From boulomai; a resolve. as the τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. pagans: ἐθνῶν (ethnōn) Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1484.htm">Strong's 1484: </a> Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one. living πεπορευμένους (peporeumenous) Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4198.htm">Strong's 4198: </a> To travel, journey, go, die. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. debauchery, ἀσελγείαις (aselgeiais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_766.htm">Strong's 766: </a> From a compound of a and a presumed selges; licentiousness. lust, ἐπιθυμίαις (epithymiais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1939.htm">Strong's 1939: </a> Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing. drunkenness, οἰνοφλυγίαις (oinophlygiais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3632.htm">Strong's 3632: </a> Drunkenness, debauchery. From oinos and a form of the base of phluaros; an overflow of wine, i.e. Vinolency. orgies, κώμοις (kōmois) Noun - Dative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2970.htm">Strong's 2970: </a> A feasting, reveling, carousal. From keimai; a carousal. carousing, πότοις (potois) Noun - Dative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4224.htm">Strong's 4224: </a> A drinking, carousing. From the alternate of pino; a drinking-bout or carousal. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. detestable ἀθεμίτοις (athemitois) Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_111.htm">Strong's 111: </a> Illegal, unlawful, criminal, lawless. By implication, flagitious. idolatry. εἰδωλολατρίαις (eidōlolatriais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1495.htm">Strong's 1495: </a> Service (worship) of an image (an idol). 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