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You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A) They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.[a](B) But they will have to give an accounting to him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.(C)

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  1. 4.4 Or they malign you

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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