1. 1 Peter 4:3 (ESV)
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What are “drinking parties”?

1 Peter 4:3 (ESV)

3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

The term denotes unrestrained drinking in a context of unlimited drink.

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