1 Peter 4:3

1 Peter 4:3 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:

Expanded Translation

For the time which has passed by (in our former unregenerated state) is sufficient (enough, adequate) to have worked out the desires and wishes of the Gentiles (heathens, pagans) and to have walked in intemperance (outrageous behavior), lusts (cravings of the flesh), drunkenness, revellings (wild group behavior), liquor-drinking contests, and idolatries which are (in God's sight) lawless and profane;

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to have wrought the desire

DESIREboulema, desire, purpose, will.[10]

[10] For you who would like a more complete definition of this word, consult Thayer's Greek Lexicon under thelo.

walked in lasciviousness

LACIVIOUSNESSaselgeia, intemperance; licentiousness, lasciviousness (Romans 13:13, etc.), insolence, outrageous behavior (Mark 7:22).

Thayer says, The conduct and character of one who is aselges (a word which some suppose to be compounded of the alpha negative and selge, the name of a city in Pisidia whose citizens excelled in strictness of morals).

(Others give a different origin of the word, saying it is the combination of the alpha negative, plus selgo, a word meaning not affecting pleasantly, exciting disgust. But the later Lexicons favor the first idea on its etymology.)

Trench says it is best described as wanton lawless insolence.. The aselges, as Passow observes. being one who acknowledges no restraints, who dares whatsoever his caprice and wanton petulance may suggest. the fundamental notion. of aselgeia, lawless and insolence and wanton caprice.

See 2 Peter 2:7 where the same word occurs in the plural.

lust, wine-bibbings

LUSTSepithumia. See desire under 1 Peter 1:2. The Apostle here means those unbridled and uninhibited cravings of the fleshstirred up and perpetuated by Satan.

WINEBIBBINGSoinophlugia (from oinoswine, and phuloto bubble over, overflow): to debauch with wine, drunkenness, sottishness.

commonly. it is used for a debauch; no single word rendering it better than this; being as it is an extravagant indulgence in potations long drawn out. such as may induce permanent mischiefs on the body. as did, for instance, that fatal debauch to which, adopting one of the reports current in antiquity, Arrian inclines to ascribe the death of Alexander the Great. Trench.
REVELLINGSkomoss properly, a festive procession, a merrymaking; in the New Testament, a revel, lascivious feasting. See Romans 13:13 (rioting), Galatians 5:21. Trench states that the word contains both an element of riot and of revelry. Komoss was often used of the company of revelers themselves; always of a festal and disorderly company, but not of necessity riotous and drunken. Still, he says, the word generally implies as much, being applied in a special sense to the troop of drunken revelers who at the late close of a revel, with garlands on their heads, and torches in their hands, with shout and song, pass to the harlots-' houses or otherwise wander through the streets, with insult and wanton outrage for everyone whom they met.

Do we not see very similar acts in our society today? Midnight parties, high school and college dances, and other late-hour gatherings of the world are frequently concluded in a similar fashion. In fact, attend any such get-together in this, our cultured twentieth century, and nearly all of the sins mentioned in this passage will be committed!
CAROUSINGSpotos: a drinking; a drinking together, drinking-bout, computation. This word would be descriptive of a couple or group who sat down at a drinking place and competed against one another to see who could drink the most.

and abominable idolatries

Athemitos (alpha negative, plus themitoslawful), hence, unlawful, wicked. In this passage, the meaning is that it is divinely unlawful, hence lawless, profane, ungodly.