1 Peter 4:3

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the time past of our life may suffice us - “We have spent sufficient time in indulging ourselves, and following our wicked propensities, and...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(2) For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the (b) will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of w...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Our voluntary suffering in the way of righteousness denotes our fellowship with Christ, and our breaking with sin. Let there be therefore no return,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

of our life . The texts omit. may suffice . is sufficient (Greek. arketos. Only here and Matthew 6:34 ; Matthew 10:25 ). us . The texts o...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3 For the time past of our life may suffice Peter does not mean that we ought to be wearied with pleasures, as those are wont to be who are...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2405 A WORLDLY LIFE TO BE RELINQUISHED 1 Peter 4:3 . The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentile...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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, rev...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For the time past of our life, &c.— St. Peter did not mean that it is lawful for men to satiate themselves with vice, and that they need not le...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, r...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Security of the Faithful in the Approaching Judgment C (ii). 1 Peter 4:1-6 . 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm your...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Will] RV 'desire,' contrasted with the will of God.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For the time past of our life. — There are two words in the English here which do not stand in the true text, and sadly impede the sense. They are...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 THE LESSONS OF SUFFERING 1 Peter 4:1-6 IT is always hard to swim against the stream; and if the effort be a moral one, the difficul...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the New Life in Christ 1 Peter 4:1-11 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord's grave lay between Him and H...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reach...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath c...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the time past of our life may suffice us ,.... The word "our" is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions....
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, rev...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the time past of our life may suffice us Αρκετος ημιν, is sufficient for us; to have wrought the will of the Gentiles The expression is soft,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Mortification of Sin. A. D. 66. 1 Forasm...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For the time past of our be may see: the apostle doth not mean by this expression merely that they should forbear their former lusts out of a satie...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Christ's Suffering In The Flesh Should Arm Them For The Battle Ahead With One Eye On The Coming Judgment And On The Resurrection ( 1 Peter 4:1-6 )....
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Application Of The Previous Theme, And Reminder of the Coming Judgment ( 1 Peter 4:1-19 ). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘For the time past may be seen as sufficient to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-parties, r...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE CALL TO HOLY LIVING CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 Peter 4:1 . In the flesh .—Or to the flesh; i.e ., so far as the flesh is concerned....
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 4:1 . Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Peter 4:1 . Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: Accepting this great truth,...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Peter 4:3 . The will of the gentiles. Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Expositions 1 Peter 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Admonitions in View of the Second Coming of Christ. Ceasing from sin:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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, reve...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Revellings, banquetings — Have these words any meaning now? They had, seventeen hundred years ago. Then the former meant, meetings to eat; meetings...

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:

Related Commentaries of 1 Peter 4:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

1 Peter 4:3