“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
1 Peter 4:4 - English Standard Version 2016 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign 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! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.