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.
excess of wine: This entire phrase means "to bubble up, overflow, drunkenness" (Thayer 442-2-3632). All of the conduct described in verse three refers to "excess" (anachusis) or "a pouring out, overflowing" (Vine, Vol. II 57) of evil. The Revised Version translates the expression as "winebibbings."