For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do:[a] carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires,(A) drunkenness, orgies,(B) carousing, and lawless idolatry. So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood[b] of wild living—and they slander you. They will give an account to the One who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:3 Or Gentiles
  2. 1 Peter 4:4 Lit you don’t run with them into the same pouring out

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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