Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
1 Peter 4:4 - King James Version - American Edition wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of 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 unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying:
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
But these, as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.