1 Peter 4:3 Cross References - Lamsa

³ For the time past sufficed to have wrought the will of the pagans when you lived in lasciviousness, drunkenness, revellings, indecent singing, and worship of idols.

²² Extortion, wickedness, deceit, lust, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness;

³⁰ For the times of ignorance God has made to pass, and at this time he has commanded all men, everywhere, to repent.

²⁰ For, from the very creation of the world, the invisible things of God have been clearly seen and understood by his creations, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. ²¹ For they knew God and did not glorify him and give thanks to him as God, but became vain in their imaginations, and their hearts were darkened so that they could not understand. ²² And while they thought within themselves that they were wise, they became fools, ²³ And they have changed the glory of the uncorruptible God for an image made in the likeness of corruptible man, and in the likeness of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and of creeping things on the earth. ²⁴ That is why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: ²⁵ And they have changed the truth of God for lies, and worshipped and served the created things more than their Creator to whom belong glory and blessings for ever. Amen. ²⁶ Therefore God has given them up to vile passions: for even their women have changed the natural use of their sex into that which is unnatural: ²⁷ And likewise also their men have left the natural use of the women and have run wild with lust toward one another, male with male committing shameful acts, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error. ²⁸ And as they did not consent in themselves to know God, God has given them over to a weak mind, to do the things which should not be done; as, ²⁹ Being filled with all manner of iniquity, fornication, bitterness, malice, extortion, envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil thoughts, ³⁰ Slanderers, backbiters, haters of God, revilers, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, the weak-minded, disobedient to their parents; ³¹ These have no respect for a covenant. They know neither love nor peace, nor is there mercy in them; ³² Knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things, he condemns to death, they not only do them, but also associate with those who practice them.

¹² Therefore, my brethren, we are not indebted to the flesh to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if you live after the flesh, you will die: but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you shall live.

¹³ Let us walk decently, as in the daylight; not in clamor and drunkenness, not in the practice of immorality, not in envy and strife.

¹¹ And some of these evils were to be found in some of you, but you have been cleansed, and have been sanctified, and made righteous in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God.

² That once you were pagans, and without exception you were carried away by dumb idols.

²¹ Perhaps when I come to you, my God will humble me, and I will mourn over many who have sinned, and who have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

¹⁹ For the works of the flesh are well-known, which are these: adultery, impurity, and lasciviousness,

²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and all like things: those who practice these things, as I have told you before and I say to you now, they shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

² In which you previously walked according to the worldly course of this world, and according to the will of the supreme ruler of the air, the spirit which is active in the children of disobedience. ³ In those very deeds in which we were also corrupted from the very beginning through the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the wills of the flesh and of the mind: thereby we became completely the children of wrath, even as others.

¹⁷ This I say therefore and testify in the LORD: that you henceforth live not as other Gentiles, who live in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ And whose understanding is dark, and who are alienated from the life of God, because they have no knowledge, and because of the blindness of their hearts; ¹⁹ And who have given up their hope, and have surrendered themselves to wantonness, and to the practice of all uncleanness in their covetousness.

¹⁸ And do not become drunk with wine, wherein is intemperance; but be filled with the Spirit,

⁵ And not through the passion of lust, even as the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:

³ For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, misled, and serving divers lusts and passions, living in malice and envy, hated, and also hating one another.

¹⁴ Like obedient children, not partakers again in those sinful desires for which you once lusted in your ignorance:

⁴ For certain men have falsely entered among you, and these were foreordained from the very beginning to this condemnation; they are ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her adultery on earth. ⁵ And upon her forehead was a name written, that not all could understand, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.