For the time that has passed was sufficient to do what the Gentiles desire to do[a], having lived in licentiousness, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries, with respect to which they are surprised when[b] you do not run with them into the same flood of dissipation, and so they[c] revile you. They[d] will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:3 Literally “to do the intention of the Gentiles”
  2. 1 Peter 4:4 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“run with”) which is understood as temporal
  3. 1 Peter 4:4 Here “and so” is supplied as a component of the participle (“revile”) which is understood as result
  4. 1 Peter 4:5 Literally “who”