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

Titus 3:3

Lasciviousness

Mark 7:22

Galatians 5:19

Jude 1:4

Excess

Ephesians 5:18

Revellings

Galatians 5:21

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

The time

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

Well then, my brothers, we owe a duty ??but it is not to the flesh! It is not to live by the flesh!

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

To have

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Lasciviousness

adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness,

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Excess

and do not get drunk with wine ??that means profligacy ??but be filled with the Spirit,

Revellings

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

General references

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;