'It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you [carefully] wash the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they [i.e., such evil people] are full of greed and uncontrolled desire.
1 Peter 4:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Now, those people you used to run around with cannot understand why you have stopped living such wasteful lives, so they just “badmouth” you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They are astonished and think it very queer that you do not now run hand in hand with them in the same excesses of dissipation, and they abuse [you]. American Standard Version (1901) wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Common English Bible They think it’s strange that you don’t join in these activities with the same flood of unrestrained wickedness. So they slander you. Catholic Public Domain Version About this, they wonder why you do not rush with them into the same confusion of indulgences, blaspheming. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherein they think it strange, that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness, speaking evil of you. |
'It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you [carefully] wash the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they [i.e., such evil people] are full of greed and uncontrolled desire.
And a few days later, this younger son gathered everything together and traveled to a distant country where he squandered his possessions in wild living.
But when the Jews saw the large crowds [gathered to hear the Gospel] they became very jealous and took sharp issue with the things Paul said, and [even] spoke against them.
When the Jews resisted [Paul’s efforts] and spoke against him and his message, he shook out his clothing [i.e., an expression of rejection and contempt] and said to them “Let your blood be on your own heads [i.e., you are responsible for whatever harm comes from your action]; I am not responsible. From now on I will go [and preach] to the Gentiles [only].”
We should be living properly, as in the daytime [i.e., when people normally behave themselves], not engaging in orgies and drunkenness; not practicing sexual immorality and indecent vices; not quarrelsome and jealous.
And do not get drunk on wine, which results in ruined lives, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.
You should live such good lives before [unconverted] Gentiles, so that even though they accuse you of being evildoers, by seeing your good deeds, they will [be led to] honor God [for you] on the day He visits us again [i.e., to bring judgment].
May your conscience be able to so approve of your conduct that, even if you are ridiculed, those doing it will [eventually] have to be ashamed [of themselves] for criticizing your Christian behavior.
However, these people are like unreasonable, ignorant creatures of instinct, born as animals which are [to be] caught and destroyed. They speak out against things about which they are ignorant. In [the process of] destroying others, they will certainly be destroyed themselves.
It has happened to them like the true proverb [Prov. 26:11 says], “The dog [throws up, and then] goes back and eats its own vomit,” and “The hog that was all cleaned up [goes back] to wallowing in the mud.”
But these people [i.e., the “certain men” of verse 4] speak against whatever they do not understand, and what they do understand naturally, the way animals do, proves to be their ruination.