1 Peter 4:3 Cross References - WPNT

³ Because the time that has passed is plenty for you to have performed the will of the pagans—having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, carousings and disgusting idolatries—

²² thefts, covetings, malignancies; deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness—

³⁰ Such times of ignorance God did indeed overlook, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent,

²⁰ Because His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood from what has been made, so that they are inexcusable; ²¹ precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened. ²² Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged for themselves the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling a perishable man —even birds and quadrupeds and reptiles! ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up, through the cravings of their hearts for vileness, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves ²⁵ —they had exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature; ²⁷ likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things: ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, depravity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, braggarts, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ senseless, faithless, hardhearted, intransigent, unmerciful; ³² who, knowing full well God’s just sentence, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do them but also approve of other practitioners.

¹² So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it; ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live.

¹³ Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual orgies and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

² You know that when you were pagans you were always led toward the mute idols, being carried away.

²¹ that when I come again my God may not humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and not repented of the impurity and fornication and licentiousness which they practiced.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience; ³ among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

¹⁷ So then, I affirm and insist on this in the Lord: you must no longer carry on as the rest of the Gentiles do, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having been darkened in their understanding, being alienated [as a continuing condition] from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts, ¹⁹ who, having become dead to hope, have abandoned themselves to depravity, greedily indulging in every kind of vileness.

¹⁸ And don’t get drunk on wine, which can be harmful and wasteful; rather be filled with the Spirit,

⁵ not in lustful passion (like the heathen who don’t know God);

³ Because we ourselves were also foolish at one time, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, detestable, hating one another.

¹⁴ as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance,

⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written: “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the prostitutes and the abominations of the earth.”