"For the time past of {our} life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousnes…" — 1 Peter 4:3

1 Peter 4:3 · 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:”

— 1 Peter 4:3

Verse 2

That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Verse 4

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}:

1 Peter 4 — Context

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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:

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}:

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:18

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Ephesians 4:17-19

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 2:2-3

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Galatians 5:21

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told {you} in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Revelation 17:4-5

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: {decked: Gr. gilded}