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1 Peter 4:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They are surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living #– #and they slander  you.

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Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience,  so that when you are accused,  those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.


Conduct  yourselves honourably among the Gentiles,  so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.


When they resisted and blasphemed,  he shook out his clothes  and told them, ‘Your blood is on your own heads!  I am innocent.  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.’


But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.


But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.


It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit,   , and, ‘A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.’


But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.


Let us walk with decency,  as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;  not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarrelling and jealousy.


Not many days later, the younger son gathered together all he had and travelled to a distant country, where he squandered   his estate in foolish living.


And don’t get drunk  with wine,  which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:


‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed   and self-indulgence.





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