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, to the house of Israel, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

Some of you once lived this way. 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

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same."

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Lasciviousness

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Excess

Absalom instructed his servants, "Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' kill him then and there. Don't fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!"

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer -- priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

And do not get drunk with wine, which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit,

Revellings

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

General references

But if the bright spot stays in its place and has not spread, it is the scar of the boil, so the priest is to pronounce him clean.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today."

Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.