"Paul reduces all the actions of the new life to three classes: sobriety, righteousness, and godliness... Nothing is more difficult than to forsake all carnal thoughts, to subdue and renounce our false appetites, and to devote ourselves to God and our brethren, and to live the life of angels in a world of corruption.To deliver our minds from every snare Paul calls our attention to the hope of a blessed immortality, and encourages us that our hope is not in vain. As Christ once appeared as a Redeemer, so he will at his second coming show us the benefits of the salvation which he obtained.Christ dispels the charms that blind us and prevent us from longing with the right zeal for the glory of heaven.Christ also teaches us that we must live as strangers and pilgrims in this world, that we may not lose our heavenly inheritance."
- John Calvin's Golden Book of the True Christian Life