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1 Peter 4:3

Weymouth NT

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in– pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

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covetousness, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, reviling, pride, reckless folly:

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.

You know that when you were heathens you went astray after dumb idols, wherever you happened to be led.

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my God in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

Do not over-indulge in wine –a thing in which excess is so easy–

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed –men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation– ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.




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