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.
banquetings: This word means "literally, a drinking, signifies not simply a banquet but a drinking bout, a carousal" (Vine, Vol. I 170). "Banquetings" were drinking matches (potos) or drinking parties wherein each sought to outdo all others. These drinking parties were a part of the heathen way of life.