1 Peter 4:3 Parallel Translations

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. (NASB ©1995)

GWT:

You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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:

ASV:

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

BBE:

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

DBY:

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

ERV:

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

WEY:

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in-- pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

WBS:

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, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

WEB:

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

YLT:

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

1 Peter 4:3 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 13:13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 12:2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:3 {2} For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the {b} will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(2) By putting us in mind of the dishonesty of our former life led in the filth of sin, he calls us to earnest repentance.
(b) Wickedly and licentiously after the manner of the Gentiles.

PNT:

4:3 For the time past may suffice us enough. That was enough time for sin.
To have wrought the will of the Gentiles. Lived the unholy lives common among the heathen.
When we walked. Peter describes the common sins, sins of the Gentile world, sins in which too many Jews imitated them.
In lasciviousness, lusts. Sins of uncleanness.
Excess of wine. Drunkenness.
Revellings. Riotous merry making is meant. See Ro 13:13 Ga 5:21.
Banquetings. Carousings, as in the Revised Version.

WES:

4:3 Revellings, banquetings - Have these words any meaning now? They had, seventeen hundred years ago. Then the former meant, meetings to eat; meetings, the direct end of which was, to please the taste: the latter, meetings to drink: both of which Christians then ranked with abominable idolatries.

MHC:

4:1-6 The strongest and best arguments against sin, are taken from the sufferings of Christ. He died to destroy sin; and though he cheerfully submitted to the worst sufferings, yet he never gave way to the least sin. Temptations could not prevail, were it not for man's own corruption; but true Christians make the will of God, not their own lust or desires, the rule of their lives and actions. And true conversion makes a marvellous change in the heart and life. It alters the mind, judgment, affections, and conversation. When a man is truly converted, it is very grievous to him to think how the time past of his life has been spent. One sin draws on another. Six sins are here mentioned which have dependence one upon another. It is a Christian's duty, not only to keep from gross wickedness, but also from things that lead to sin, or appear evil. The gospel had been preached to those since dead, who by the proud and carnal judgment of wicked men were condemned as evil-doers, some even suffering death. But being quickened to Divine life by the Holy Spirit, they lived to God as his devoted servants. Let not believers care, though the world scorns and reproaches them.

CONC:

Abominable Already Banquetings Behaviour Binges Carousing Carousings Carried Choose Course Debauchery Delight Desire Desires Detestable Drinking Drinking-bouts Drinkings Drunken Drunkenness Excess Excesses Feasting Flesh Gentiles Habitual Idolatries Idolatry Images Image-worship Lasciviousness Lasciviousnesses Lawless Lewdness Licence Licentiousness Loose Lust Lusts Nations Noisy Orgies Pagans Parties Passions Past Pursued Pursuing Revelings Revellings Revelry Revels Sensuality Spent Suffice Sufficient Unclean Unhallowed Unholy Unlawful Walked Walking Wine Winebibbings Wine-drinking Wines Worship Wrought

Abominable Already Carousing Carried Choose Course Debauchery Delight Desire Drinking Drunken Drunkenness Enough Excess Gentiles Habitual Hard Idolatries Idolatry Lasciviousness Lewdness Licentiousness Noisy Orgies Pagans Parties Passions Past Pursued Pursuing Revelings Revellings Revelry Revels Sensuality Spent Suffice Sufficient Time Unholy Walked Wine Wrought

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