Verse 3

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  For den tiden som før har vært nok for vårt liv, er tilstrekkelig til å ha utført hedningenes vilje, da vi vandret i utskeielser, lyster, overflod av vin, festing, banketter og avskyelig avgudsdyrkelse.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  For vi har hatt mer enn nok tid tidligere til å oppfylle viljen til de hedningene. Vi har levd i utukt, begjær, fester, drikking og usømmelighet samt avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk King James

  For tiden vi har hatt i vårt liv er mer enn tilstrekkelig til å ha fulgt de hedenske livsformene, da vi levde i utukt, begjær, vinens overflod, festligheter og avskyelige avgudsdyrkelser.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For det er nok at vi i den tiden som har passert levde etter de hedenske lyster, hvor vi fulgte utsvevelser, lyster, drukkenskap, festing og ulovlig avgudsdyrkelse.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  For det er nok at I i den tid som er forløpet, har gjort hedningenes vilje og gått frem i skamløse lyster, svir, fyll, svir og drikkegilder og vederstyggelige avgudsdyrkelser;

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  For den tiden som er gått, er nok til å ha fullført hedningenes vilje, da dere levde i utskeielser, lyster, fyll, fester, drikkelag og ulovlige avgudsdyrkelser.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For den tiden som er gått burde være nok til å ha fulgt hedningenes vilje, da vi vandret i utskeielser, lyster, overdreven drikking, utsvevende fester, drikkelag og avskyelige avgudsdyrkelser.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For vårt tidligere liv var nok til å gjøre opp for hedningenes vilje, da vi levde i utskeielser, begjær, overdrevent vinkonsum, festing, banketter og avskyelige avgudsdyrkelser:

• gpt4.5-preview

  For det er nok at vi i den forgangne tid av livet vårt har levd slik hedningene ønsket, da vi vandret i skamløshet, lyster, drukkenskap, festing, drikkelag og avskyelig avgudsdyrkelse.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For det er nok at vi i den forgangne tid av livet vårt har levd slik hedningene ønsket, da vi vandret i skamløshet, lyster, drukkenskap, festing, drikkelag og avskyelig avgudsdyrkelse.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For tiden som er gått er nok for dere til å ha levd etter hedningenes vilje, i utsvevelser, lyster, drukkenskap, fester, svir og motbydelig avgudsdyrkelse.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  For vi har allerede hatt nok tid tidligere i livet til å gjøre hedningenes vilje, da vi levde i utskeielser, lyster, fyllefester, drikkelag og ulovlig avgudsdyrkelse.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi det er nok, at vi i den forbigangne Livstid have bedrevet Hedningernes Villie, der vi vandrede i Uteerlighed, Lyster, Fylderi, Fraadseri, Drukkenskab og utilbørlig Afgudsdyrkelse;

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For den tiden vi har levd tidligere, er nok til å ha gjort hedningenes vilje, da vi levde i utskeielser, lyster, drikkegilder, fester, og avskyelige avgudsdyrkelser.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Vi har brukt nok av vår fortid på å følge hedningens lyster, å leve i utskeielser, lyster, fyll, festing, drikkegilder og avskyelig avgudsdyrkelse.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For den tid som er gått, er nok for oss å ha fulgt hedningenes vilje, da vi levde i umoral, lyster, fylleri, festing, drikketurer og ulovlige avgudsdyrkelser.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For den tiden som er gått, får være nok til å ha levd etter hedningenes lyster, i utskeielser, begjær, fyll, festing, drikking og avskyelige avgudsdyrkelser.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For lenge nok har vi i tidligere tider levd etter hedningenes veier, gitt oss over til kjødets lyster, til drikking og festing, løs adferd og uren tilbedelse av bilder.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For it is sufficient for vs that we have spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe after the will of the gentyls walkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennes in eatinge drinkinge and in abominable ydolatrie.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For it is ynough, yt we haue spent ye tyme past of the life, after the will of ye Heythen, wha we walked in wantannesse, lustes, dronkenes, glotony, ryotous drynkynge, & i abhominable Idolatrye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spet the time past of ye life, after the lust of the Gentiles, walking in wantonnes, lustes, drunkenes, in gluttonie, drinkings, & in abominable idolatries.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the tyme that is paste of the lyfe, after the wyll of the gentiles, walkyng in wantonnesse, lustes, in excesse of wynes, in excesse of eatyng, in excesse of drynkyng, and abominable idolatrie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

• World English Bible (2000)

  For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

Referenced Verses

• Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:
• Rev 17:4-5 : 4 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication: 5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
• Ezek 44:6 : 6 And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
• Ezek 45:9 : 9 Thus says the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, says the Lord GOD.
• Acts 17:30 : 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
• Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
• Gal 5:21 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 4:17-19 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Rom 1:20-32 : 20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rom 8:12-13 : 12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these mute idols, even as you were led.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Mark 7:22 : 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
• Isa 65:4 : 4 Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
• Jer 16:18 : 18 And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled my land; they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.
• Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
• 2 Sam 13:28 : 28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, do not fear: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
• 1 Kgs 21:26 : 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Chr 15:8 : 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
• Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. 31 Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast. 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
• Isa 5:11 : 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.