1 Peter 4:3 Cross References - Riverside

³ The time that has passed was enough to spend doing the will of the Gentiles, when you went on in indecencies, passions, hard drinking, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries.

²² adulteries, lusts, wickednesses, deceit, sensuality, an evil eye, slander, arrogance, recklessness —

³⁰ The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to change,

²⁰ For God's invisible qualities — his everlasting power and deity — are, since the creation of the world, clearly seen, being known from what he has made. So they are without any excuse. ²¹ For although they knew God they did not glorify him as God and did not give him thanks, but fell into futile speculations and their stupid hearts were darkened. ²² Boasting of being wise, they became fools ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into images of mortal man, and of birds and beasts and reptiles. ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies mutually. ²⁵ They changed the truth of God into a lie, and reverenced and paid worship to the creature rather than to the Creator — who is blessed forever, Amen! ²⁶ Therefore God gave them over to disgraceful passions. For their females changed the natural use for one contrary to nature, ²⁷ and their males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their lust for one another, males with males practicing indecency and receiving in themselves the deserved penalty of their error. ²⁸ And as they did not think fit to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them over to an abandoned mind, to do the things that are shameful, ²⁹ filled with all injustice, wickedness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, fraud, malignant craftiness, whisperers, ³⁰ slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without common sense, without faithfulness, without family affection, without pity. ³² They know the just judgment of God that those who practice such things are worthy of death, yet they not only do them themselves, but are pleased with those who practice them.

¹² So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live.

¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy.

¹¹ And such some of you were. But you have washed yourselves; but you have been made holy; but you have been pronounced righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

² For you know that when you were Gentiles you were led away after the dumb idols just as might happen.

²¹ I am afraid that when I come again my God may humble me in your presence, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have been long sinning and have not repented of the impurity and unchastity and sensuality which they have practiced.

¹⁹ The works of the flesh are obvious, such as unchastity, impurity, indecency,

²¹ envyings, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like. Of these I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

² in which you once walked, following the ways of this age of the world, led by the Ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among these we all lived once in the passions of our flesh and of our thoughts, and we were by nature children of wrath like the rest.

¹⁷ This then I say and solemnly protest in the Lord: that you are no longer to live as the Gentiles live in vacancy of mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, aliens from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their hearts. ¹⁹ Lost to any sense of shame they have abandoned themselves to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

¹⁸ Do not be drunk with wine, in which there is profligacy, but be full of the Spirit,

⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God;

³ For we ourselves were once thoughtless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to passions and various pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not shape your lives by the passions that ruled you in the former days of ignorance,

⁴ For certain persons have crept in, who of old were written of as predestined to this doom, godless, changing the grace of our God into profligacy and disowning our only Ruler and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She had in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness. ⁵ On her forehead was written a mysterious name: "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth."