For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:3 NU time

For (A)the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, [a](B)having pursued a course of indecent behavior, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:3 Lit having gone in

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)

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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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13 But when you give a feast, invite (A)the poor, the [a]maimed, the lame, the blind.

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  1. Luke 14:13 crippled

13 But whenever you give a [a]banquet, invite people who are poor, who have disabilities, who are limping, and people who are blind;

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  1. Luke 14:13 Or reception

13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,(A)

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13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

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49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, (A)fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had (A)arrogance, (B)plenty of food, and (C)carefree ease, but she did not [a]help the (D)poor and needy.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit grasp the hand of

49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:(A) She and her daughters were arrogant,(B) overfed and unconcerned;(C) they did not help the poor and needy.(D)

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49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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