‘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.
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
‘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.
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.
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.
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.’
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.
And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:
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.
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.
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.
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 blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.