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1 Peter 4:3

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4:3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians4 desire.5 You lived then6 in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts,7 and wanton idolatries.8

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Footnotes

  1. 4 Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.
  2. 5 Grk “to accomplish the desire of the Gentiles.”
  3. 6 Grk “having gone along,” referring to the readers’ behavior in time past.
  4. 7 According to πότος the term refers to a social gathering at which wine is served, hence “drinking parties” (cf. , ). However, the collocation with the other terms in v. 4 suggests something less sophisticated and more along the lines of wild and frenzied drinking bouts.
  5. 8 The Greek words here all occur in the plural to describe their common practice in the past.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

NLTNew Living Translation

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the time that has passed was sufficient to do what the Gentiles desire to do, having lived in licentiousness, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries,

KJV 1900King James Version

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: