1. 1 Peter 4:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What are “passions”?

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.

Peter had used the same word in 1 Peter 4:2 (human passions). In that verse the word was a catch-all term to denote the desires of the fallen human heart. In the present verse the word functions in a narrower sense, namely, as a parallel to debauchery and orgies. So it speaks to hunger or lust that plays itself out in debaucherous conduct.