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For (A)the time already past is sufficient for you to have worked out the desire of the Gentiles, [a](B)having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and [b]abominable idolatries. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of (C)dissipation, (D)maligning you, but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge (E)the living and the dead.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 4:3 Lit having gone in
  2. 1 Peter 4:3 Lit lawless

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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