But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you --

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;