1 Peter 4:4

Free Bible Version

People think it's strange that you don't join them anymore in this wild and excessive lifestyle, so they curse at you. But they will have to explain what they've done to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Cross References

Matthew 23:25

What a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you're full of greed and self-indulgence.

Luke 15:13

A few days later the younger son packed up what he had and left for a distant country. Here he wasted all his money living a reckless life.

Acts 13:45

However, when the Jews saw the crowds, they became extremely jealous, contradicting what Paul was saying and cursing him.

Acts 18:6

When they opposed him and cursed him, he shook out his clothes and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent of any guilt, and from now on I will go to the foreigners.”

Romans 13:13

Let's behave properly, showing that we're people who are living in the light. We shouldn't spend our time going to wild parties and getting drunk, or having affairs and acting immorally, or getting into fights and being jealous.

Ephesians 5:18

Don't get drunk on wine which will wreck your life, but be filled with the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:12

Be sure to act appropriately when you're with non-Christians, so even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see the good things you do and glorify God when he comes.

1 Peter 3:16

Make sure your conscience is clear, so that if anyone makes accusations against you, they will be embarrassed for speaking badly about the good way you live your life in Christ.

2 Peter 2:12

These people are like mindless beasts, produced like farm animals to be captured and slaughtered. They condemn things they don't know anything about, and just like animals they will be destroyed.

2 Peter 2:22

This proverb has come true for them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the washed pig has gone back to rolling in the mud.”

Jude 1:10

But these people ridicule whatever they don't understand; and what they do understand they instinctively follow like unthinking animals—this is what destroys them.