¹³ Let us walk with decency,^(A) as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;^(B) not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

²¹ I fear that when I come my God will again^[a] humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented^(A) of the moral impurity, sexual immorality,^(B) and sensuality^(C) they practiced.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious:^[a] sexual immorality,^(A) moral impurity,^(B) promiscuity,^(C)

¹⁹ They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity^(A) with a desire for more and more.^[a]

³ For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires,^(A) drunkenness, orgies,^(B) carousing, and lawless idolatry.

² Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them.^(A)

⁷ and if he rescued righteous Lot,^(A) distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral

¹⁸ For by uttering boastful, empty words,^(A) they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped^[a] from those who live in error.