^{2 Ref} So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

^{3 Ref} Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

^{4 Ref} And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you: