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For it is enough for us that we have spent the time that is past of our life after the will of the Gentiles, walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness; in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.

And it seems to them a strange thing that you run not also with them to the same excess of disorder, and therefore they speak evil of you. But they will give accounts to him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

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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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