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

Acts 17:30

Romans 8:12

1 Corinthians 6:11

To have

Lasciviousness

Jude 1:4

Excess

Ephesians 5:18

Revellings

Galatians 5:21

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

The time

Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

To have

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

(for, since the creation of the world, his attributes, which are invisible, are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,) that they may be without excuse;

in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is actively at work in the sons of disobedience:

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

Lasciviousness

thefts, schemes for extortion, wicked deeds, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, calumny, haughtiness, impiety.

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Excess

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

Revellings

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

General references

in which things you also formerly walked when you lived in them.