1 Peter 4:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 time

1 Corinthians 6:11

To have

Titus 3:3

Lasciviousness

Jude 1:4

Excess

Ephesians 5:18

Revellings

Galatians 5:21

General references

Bible References

The time

“Say to the rebellious people, the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I have had enough of all your detestable practices, house of Israel.

“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far,

princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

And some of you used to be like this. 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.

To have

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler who exercises authority over the lower heavens,

the spirit now working in the disobedient.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Lasciviousness

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:

sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Excess

Now Absalom commanded his young men, “Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and courageous!”

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?
Who has red eyes?

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.

These also stagger because of wine
and stumble under the influence of beer:
priest and prophet stagger because of beer,
they are confused by wine.
They stumble because of beer,
they are muddled in their visions,
they stumble in their judgments.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:

Revellings

envy,

drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

General references

But if the spot remains where it is and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil. The priest is to pronounce him clean.

Obey the Lord your God and follow His commands and statutes I am giving you today.”

Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,
and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.