Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.

These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.