1 Peter 4:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 4:4

Wherein they think it strange - In respect to which vices, they who were once your partners and accomplices now think it strange that you no longer unite with them. They do not understand the reasons why you have left them. They regard you as abandoning a course of life which has much to attract and to make life merry, for a severe and gloomy superstition. This is a true account of the feelings which the people of the world have when their companions and friends leave them and become... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 4:3-5

1 Peter 4:3-5 . 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, but conveys a very strong meaning, namely, that in no period of our lives ought we to have wrought the will of the Gentiles; and that whatever time we spent in so doing was too much. When we walked in lasciviousness In various kinds and degrees of it; lusts Inordinate desires; excess of wine Οινοφλυγιαις , being inflamed... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 4:1-11

Changed lives of Christ’s followers (4:1-11)Christ’s death dealt with sin once and for all. In that sense he has nothing more to do with sin. Christians are united with Christ in his death, and therefore they too should have nothing more to do with sin. They should live no longer to please themselves but to please God (4:1-2). Christians must have no more involvement with the disgusting practices of their former days, no matter how much their reformed behaviour brings jeers and insults from... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Peter 4:4

Wherein = In ( App-104 .) which. think, &c . See Acts 17:20 . excess . Greek. anachusis. Only here. riot . Greek. asotia . See Ephesians 5:18 . speaking evil of . Greek. blasphemeo. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Peter 4:4

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:Ye run not with them ... Perhaps here is the source of a common expression, running with" this or that social set, or with certain friends or associates.Excess of riot ... The tendency of all riot, lust, violence, etc., is for the indulgence to increase, being multiplied geometrically beyond all consideration or reason. Those who indulge are like an engine with no governor and subject to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 4:4

1 Peter 4:4. Wherein they think it strange, &c.— In the Syriac the words run thus: And behold now, they are amazed and blaspheme you, because you do not grow wanton with them in the same intemperance as formerly. 'Εν ω, wherein, or in which, refers to the will of the Gentiles, 1 Peter 4:3. The word ξενιζονται, rendered they think it strange, properly signifies, they are strangers; but it appears that many Greek writers used it for being astonished, or standing in admiration of a thing, as... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 4:4

4. Wherein—In respect to which abandonment of your former walk ( :-). run not with them—eagerly, in troops [BENGEL]. excess—literally, "profusion"; a sink: stagnant water remaining after an inundation. riot—profligacy. speaking evil—charging you with pride, singularity, hypocrisy, and secret crimes (1 Peter 4:14; 2 Peter 2:2). However, there is no "of you" in the Greek, but simply "blaspheming." It seems to me always to be used, either directly or indirectly, in the sense of impious reviling... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Peter 4:1-6

3. Living with the promise in view 4:1-6Since Jesus Christ has gained the victory, Peter urged his readers to rededicate themselves to God’s will as long as they might live. He wanted to strengthen their resolve to continue to persevere. He resumed here the exhortation that he broke off in 1 Peter 3:17. Generally speaking, 1 Peter 4:1-3 focus on Christian behavior and 1 Peter 4:4-6 on pagan response. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Peter 4:4

Some of the persecution Peter’s readers were experiencing was due to their unwillingness to continue in their old lifestyle with their unsaved friends. This continues to be a common source of persecution for Christians today."Unsaved people do not understand the radical change that their friends experience when they trust Christ and become children of God. They do not think it strange when people wreck their bodies, destroy their homes, and ruin their lives by running from one sin to another!... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Peter 4:4

4:4 corruption, (a-17) Or 'dissoluteness,' the heart being poured out into it. Or 'excess of profligacy.' read more

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