Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.