1 Pedro 4:4

4 E acham estranho não correrdes com eles no mesmo desenfreamento de dissolução, blasfemando de vós;

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1 Pedro 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Peter 4:4

Wherein they think it strange
Here the apostle points out what the saints must expect from the men of the world, by living a different life; and he chooses to mention it, to prevent discouragements, and that they might not be uneasy and distressed when they observed it; as that they would wonder at the change in their conversations, and look on it as something unusual, new, and unheard of, and treat them as strangers, yea, as enemies, on account of it:

that you run not with them into the same excess of riot;
to their luxurious entertainments, their Bacchanalian feasts, and that profusion of lasciviousness, luxury, intemperance, and wickedness of all sorts, which, with so much eagerness of mind, and bodily haste, they rushed into; being amazed that they should not have the same taste for these things as before, and as themselves now had; and wondering how it was possible for them to abstain from them, and what that should be that should give them a different cast of mind, and turn of action:

speaking evil of you;
and so the Syriac and Arabic versions supply "you" as we do; but in the Greek text it is only, "speaking evil of, or blaspheming"; God, Christ, religion, the Gospel, and the truths of it, and all good men; hating them because different from them, and because their lives reprove and condemn them; charging them with incivility, unsociableness, preciseness, and hypocrisy.

1 Pedro 4:4 In-Context

2 para que, no tempo que ainda vos resta na carne não continueis a viver para as concupiscências dos homens, mas para a vontade de Deus.
3 Porque é bastante que no tempo passado tenhais cumprido a vontade dos gentios, andando em dissoluções, concupiscências, borrachices, glutonarias, bebedices e abomináveis idolatrias.
4 E acham estranho não correrdes com eles no mesmo desenfreamento de dissolução, blasfemando de vós;
5 os quais hão de dar conta ao que está preparado para julgar os vivos e os mortos.
6 Pois é por isto que foi pregado o evangelho até aos mortos, para que, na verdade, fossem julgados segundo os homens na carne, mas vivessem segundo Deus em espírito.
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