1 Peter 4:3 — Bible Verse (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 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
1 Peter 4:3 in 6 Bible Translations
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1 Peter 4:3 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.”
1 Peter 4:3 — World English Bible
1 Peter 4:3 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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: ”
1 Peter 4:3 — American Standard Version
1 Peter 4:3 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> 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 — Young's Literal Translation
1 Peter 4:3 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
1 Peter 4:3 — Darby Translation
1 Peter 4:3 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spet the time past of ye life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, drunkennes, in gluttonie, drinkings, and in abominable idolatries.”
1 Peter 4:3 — Geneva Bible
1 Peter 4:3 in Context — 1 Peter 4
1 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;
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.
3 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:
4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
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What Does 1 Peter 4:3 Mean?
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