so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

then you will be perfectly empowered by His glorious might for every sort of joyous endurance and forbearance,

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

You too used to practice these sins, when you used to live that sort of life.