they needed help and admonishment in cultivating a lifestyle consistent with their salvation in Christ—a lifestyle free from drunkenness, sexual immorality, lying, stealing, bitterness, and many other vices. (4) Believers need to be well-established in an understanding of their new identity in Christ and what this means for their spiritual struggle, their relationship to fellow believers, and their ability to live the virtue and moral imperatives of the Christian life. Thirty times in this short