1. Petrus 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
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Peter's reminder that 'the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry' creates a temporal boundary between the pre-Christian past and the Christian present as sufficient motivation for change. The catalog of vices echoes Paul's lists in Romans 13:13 and Galatians 5:19-21, suggesting shared catechetical material in early Christianity for defining the contrast between pagan and Christian life. The phrase 'lawless idolatry' (athemitois eidōlolatriais) characterizes all the preceding vices as ultimately idolatrous — rooted in the worship of pleasure and self rather than God. The perspective that converts have already spent 'enough time' in sin provides a pastoral strategy: the past is both sufficient and past.
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For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
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Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is …
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the …
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, …
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled …
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE …
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having …
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.