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

True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,

So then, Brothers, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.

Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

To have

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

For ever since the creation of the universe God's invisible attributes-his everlasting power and divinity-are to be seen and studied in his works, so that men have no excuse;

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the Powers of the air--the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Lasciviousness

Greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;

I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.

Excess

Do not drink wine to excess, for that leads to profligacy; but seek to be filled with the Spirit of God, and speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sacred songs.

Revellings

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

General references

And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.