1 Peter 4:3-7 for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters.

Mace⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ for the time past of your lives may suffice, to have liv'd in conformity to the Gentile customs, in impurity, licentiousness, sottishness, in dissolute festivals, and the criminal rites of idolaters. ⁴ As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you. ⁵ but they will be call'd to account by him, who is ready to judge both the living and the dead. ⁶ for to this end was the gospel preach'd to those, who are now dead, that after having suffer'd the loss of this frail life from men, they might enjoy an immortal life with God. ⁷ The consummation of all things draws nigh. be temperate, be vigilant in prayer.