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For the time already past is [more than] enough for doing what the [unsaved] Gentiles like to do—[a]living [unrestrained as you have done] in a course of [shameless] sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries. In [connection with] all this, they [the unbelievers] are resentful and surprised that you do not [think like them, value their values and] run [hand in hand] with them into the same excesses of dissipation and immoral freedom, and they criticize and abuse and ridicule you and make fun of your values. But they will [have to] give an account to Him who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:3 Lit having gone.

For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B) They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.(C) But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.(D)

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