1 Peter 4:3 Cross References - Rotherham

³ For, sufficient, is the bygone time––to have wrought out, the will of the nations, having gone on in wanton ways, covetings, wine–drinkings, revellings, drinking–bouts, and impious idolatries:––

³⁰ take heed to thyself, lest thou be thrust after them, after they have been destroyed from before thee,––and lest thou enquire after their gods, saying––In what manner, did these nations serve their gods, that, I too, may do likewise? ³¹ Thou shalt not do likewise unto Yahweh thy God,––for, everything that is an abomination unto Yahweh, which he doth hate, have they done unto their gods, for, even their sons and their daughters, do they consume with fire unto their gods.

²⁸ Now Absolom had commanded his young men, saying––Mark, I pray you, when the heart of Amnon is merry with wine, and I say unto you––Smite ye Amnon, then shall ye put him to death, do not fear,––have not, I myself, commanded you? Be bold, and show yourselves to be sons of valour.

²⁶ so that he did very abominably, in going after the manufactured gods,––according to all which the Amorites had done, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

⁸ And, when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he strengthened himself, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had captured out of the hill country of Ephraim,––and renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

²⁹ Who hath woe? Who hath outcry of pain? Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? Who hath needless wounds? Who hath dullness of eyes? ³⁰ They who tarry over wine, they who go in to search for mixed wine. ³¹ Do not look on wine when it becometh red, when it giveth in the cup its sparkle, glideth down smoothly. ³² Its after effect, is that, like a serpent, it biteth, and, like a viper, it doth sting. ³³ Thine eyes, will see strange women, and, thy heart, will speak perverse things: ³⁴ So shalt thou become, as one lying down in the heart of the sea,––or as one lying down on the top of the mastgear: ³⁵ They smote me––I felt no pain, They struck me down––I noticed it not,––When shall I wake up? I will go on, I will seek it, again!

¹¹ Alas, for them who rise early in the morning that, strong drink, they may pursue,––Who follow on in the evening cool, [until], with wine, they are heated;

⁷ But, as for these, With wine, do they reel, and, With strong drink, do they stagger,––Priest and prophet, reel with strong drink, They are swallowed up through wine, They stagger through strong drink, They reel in prophetic vision, They totter in pronouncing judgment.

⁴ Who tarry among graves, And, in the secret places, do lodge––Who eat the flesh of swine, And, the broth of refuse things, is in their vessels,––

¹⁸ Thus will I recompense, first, twofold, their iniquity and their sin, because of their profaning my land,––with the carcase of their disgusting and detestable things, have they filled mine inheritance.

⁶ So then thou shalt say unto the perverse [house], unto the house of Israel, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: Let it more than suffice you, Out of all your abominations, O house of Israel:

⁹ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Let it more than suffice you, O princes of Israel, Violence and spoil, remove ye, And, justice and righteousness, execute,––Lift off your acts of expulsion from upon my people, Urgeth My Lord, Yahweh.

²² murders, adulteries, covetousnesses, knaveries, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, profane speaking, foolishness,––

³⁰ The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent,

²⁰ For, the unseen things of him, from a world’s creation, by the things made, being perceived, are clearly seen, even his eternal power and divinity,––to the end they should be without excuse; ²¹ Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart, ²² Professing to be wise, they were made foolish, ²³ And, exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God, for the likeness of an image of a corruptible man, and of birds and fourfooted beasts and reptiles: ²⁴ Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them,–– ²⁵ Who, indeed, exchanged away the truth of God for the falsehood, and rendered worship and service unto the creature rather than unto the Creator,––who is blessed unto the ages. Amen! ²⁶ For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature,–– ²⁷ In like manner also, even the males, leaving the natural use of the female, flamed out in their eager desire one for another, males with males, the indecency, effecting,––and, the necessary recompence of their error, within themselves, duly receiving; –– ²⁸ And, even as they did not approve to be holding, God, in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a disapproved mind to be doing the things that are not becoming, ²⁹ Filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, baseness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil disposition, ³⁰ Whisperers, detractors, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, vain boasters, inventors of vices, unto parents unyielding, ³¹ Without discernment, regardless of covenants, without natural affection, unmerciful:–– ³² Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God,––that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising [them].

¹² Hence, then, brethren––debtors, we are, not unto the flesh, that, according to flesh, we should live,–– ¹³ For, if according to flesh ye live, ye are about to die, whereas, if in spirit, the practices of the flesh, ye are putting to death, ye shall attain unto life;

¹³ As in daytime, becomingly let us walk: not in revellings and in drunken bouts, not in chamberings and in wanton deeds, not in strife and envy; ––

¹¹ And, these things, were some of you; but ye bathed them away,––but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, in the name of [our] Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

² Ye know that, when ye were of the nations, unto the dumb idols, howsoever ye were being led, ye were seduced.

²¹ Lest, when I again come, my God should humble me in regard to you,––and I should grieve over many who had before sinned, and not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and wantonness which they had committed.

¹⁹ Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are––fornication, impurity, wantonness,

²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings; ––and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you,––that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God’s kingdom.

² In which at one time ye walked, according to the age of the world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, of the spirit that now energiseth in the sons of disobedience, ³ Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger––even as the rest,––

¹⁷ This, therefore, am I saying and protesting in the Lord:––that, no longer, ye walk even as, the nations, walk––in the vanity of their minds, ¹⁸ Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God––by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone, ¹⁹ Who, indeed, having become past feeling, have delivered, themselves, up, with wantonness, unto making a trade of all impurity with greed.

¹⁸ And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; ––

⁵ Not with a passion of coveting,––just as even the nations who know not God,––

³ For, even we, used, at one time, to be––thoughtless, unyielding, deceived, in servitude unto manifold covetings and pleasures, in malice and envy, leading on, detestable, hating one another.

¹⁴ As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance:

⁴ For there have crept in unobserved certain men, who, from of old, have been publicly notified for this sentence, ungodly, men, the favour of our God, turning into wantonness, and, our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ, denying.

⁴ And, the woman, was arrayed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls,––having a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness; ⁵ and, upon her forehead, a name written, a secret: Babylon the great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the earth.