1 “First of all is the desire for someone else’s wife or husband, for extravagance of wealth, for many needless delicacies, for drunkenness and other foolish luxuries. For even luxury is pointless and futile for the servants of God. 2 These desires then are evil, and bring death on God’s servants. For this evil desire is a daughter of the devil. So you must abstain from evil desires, so that in abstaining you may live for God. 3 But all who are overpowered by them, and do not resist them, are utterly destroyed; for these desires are deadly. 4 But you—clothe yourself in the desire for righteousness, and, having armed yourself with the fear of the Lord, resist them. For the fear of God lives in the good desire. If the evil desire sees you armed with the fear of God, resisting it, it will flee far from you, and will never appear to you again, for fear of your armor.⁠a 5 So when you are crowned for your victory over it, go to the desire for righteousness and give it the victor’s crown that you have received, and serve it as it desires. If you serve the good desire and submit to it, you will have power to master and subdue the evil desire as you please.”