The Christian Life in the Modern World #265916

God was to train one to live soberly, righteously, and godly, not in a world of his own choosing, but in this present world. 1 Soberly as concerns one's self, righteously as concerns one's neighbor, piously as concerns one's God, these three principles made, according to the Apostle, a practicable rule of conduct for a young man of the first century in a vicious and pleasure-loving world.