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.
Gentiles -- Peter metaphorically uses the Greek term for Gentiles to refer to nonbelievers and the various types of immoral behavior associated with them. Although the audience of 1 Peter likely included both Jews and Gentiles, here Peter uses the term for Gentiles in a negative sense to dissuade his readers from behaving like non-believing Gentiles. - FSB