1 Peter 4:4
Good News Translation
And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.

New Revised Standard Version
They are surprised that you no longer join them in the same excesses of dissipation, and so they blaspheme.

Contemporary English Version
Now your former friends wonder why you have stopped running around with them, and they curse you for it.

New American Bible
They are surprised that you do not plunge into the same swamp of profligacy, and they vilify you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you.

excess.

Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

Luke 15:13 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

2 Peter 2:22 For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

speaking.

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16 But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Acts 13:45 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

Acts 18:6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

2 Peter 2:12 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:

Jude 1:10 But these men blaspheme whatever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know, like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.

Context
Living for God's Glory
3For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols. 4Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you. 5Who shall render account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.…
Cross References
Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

1 Peter 3:16
But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 4:3
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