We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

In

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;

Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles who know not God.

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

General references

"In holiness and righteousness before him All our days.

"I tell you in solemn truth that whoever will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child, he will never get into it."