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.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…