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

And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations,

"Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

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

And such were some of you. 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 passions of your former ignorance,

take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.'

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience--

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Lasciviousness

coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Excess

Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

Revellings

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

General references

But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today."

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.