1 Petrus 1:14

1:14 Like obedient children, do not comply with ¹  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, ² 

1 Petrus 4:2-5

4:2 in that he spends the rest of his time ³  on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires. 4:3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians ⁴  desire. ⁵  You lived then ⁶  in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, ⁷  and wanton idolatries. ⁸  4:4 So ⁹  they are astonished ¹⁰  when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you. ¹¹  4:5 They will face a reckoning before ¹²  Jesus Christ ¹³  who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

[1:14]  ¹ tn Or “do not be conformed to”; Grk “not being conformed to.”

[1:14]  ² tn Grk “the former lusts in your ignorance.”

[4:2]  ³ tn This verse may give the purpose or result of their “arming” themselves as called for in v. 1b and then the translation would be: “so that you may spend the rest of your time…” But it is better to take it as explanatory of the last phrase in v. 1: what it means to be finished with sin.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

[4:3]  ⁵ tn Grk “to accomplish the desire of the Gentiles.”

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Grk “having gone along,” referring to the readers’ behavior in time past.

[4:3]  ⁷ tn According to BDAG 857 s.v. πότος the term refers to a social gathering at which wine is served, hence “drinking parties” (cf. TEV, NASB). However, the collocation with the other terms in v. 4 suggests something less sophisticated and more along the lines of wild and frenzied drinking bouts.

[4:3]  ⁸ tn The Greek words here all occur in the plural to describe their common practice in the past.

[4:4]  ⁹ tn Grk “in/by which,” referring to the change of behavior described in v. 3. The unbelievers are astonished by the readers’ moral transformation. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:4]  ¹⁰ tn Or “are surprised, are taken aback.” The same verb occurs in 4:12.

[4:4]  ¹¹ tn Grk “blaspheming,” giving the result of their astonishment. Here the target of their “blasphemy/vilification” is not God but the Christian.

[4:5]  ¹² tn Grk “give an account to.”

[4:5]  ¹³ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (Jesus Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.