1 Peter 4:3 Cross References - Wesley

³ For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

²² Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, envy, evil speaking, pride, foolishness.

¹³ Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

³⁰ The times of ignorance indeed God overlooked; but he now commandeth all men every where to repent.

²⁰ For those things of him which are invisible, both his eternal power and Godhead, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things which are made, so that they are without excuse: ²¹ Because knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ²³ And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image in the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed creatures and reptiles. ²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; ²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature above the creator, who is blessed for ever! ²⁶ Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, ²⁷ leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward each other, men with men working filthiness, and receiving in themselves the just recompence of their error. ²⁸ And as they were not careful to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind, to do things not expedient, Filled with all injustice, maliciousness, covetousness, wickedness: ²⁹ full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: ³⁰ Whisperers, backbiters: haters of God, violent, proud: boasters, inventers of evil things: disobedient to parents, ³¹ Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. ³² Who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those that do them.

¹² Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. ¹³ For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

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.

² Ye know that when ye were heathens, ye were carried away after dumb idols, as ye were led.

²¹ and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

²¹ emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

² who were dead in trespasses and sins, Wherein ye formerly 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 sons of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past, ³ in the desires of the flesh, doing the will of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the others.

¹⁷ This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles, in the vanity of your mind: ¹⁸ Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts: ¹⁹ Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

¹⁸ And be not drunken with wine,

⁵ Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.

³ For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:

¹⁴ As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to your former desires, in your ignorance;

⁴ For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were of old described before with regard to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup, full of abominations and filthiness of her fornification: ⁵ And on her forehead a name written, Mystery; Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth.