1 Peter 4:3

Translations

Modern

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Traditional

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:

Literal

For the time past is sufficient to have carried out the intent of the Gentiles, having walked in debaucheries, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousings, and unlawful idolatries.

Latin

Sufficit enim præteritum tempus ad voluntatem gentium consummandam his qui ambulaverunt in luxuriis, desideriis, vinolentiis, comessationibus, potationibus, et illicitis idolorum cultibus.

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English

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Notes

1 Peter 4:3

the Gentiles: Peter uses this term from his Jewish background to describe those non-Jews who do not have a relationship with God.

1 Peter 4:1–6

Peter urges Christians to make a definite separation from their former sinful way of life. Christ freed us from that way of life through his suffering.

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