All vices of the flesh, all the seeds of carnality, all that is impure or unclean must be done away, for all such hinder the pure flow of intelligence from God to man. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world, we are then, by diligence, to obtain faith and add to our faith virtue, “and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:5-8.) That is, we are, through Christ, to replace the “works of the flesh” with the “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:19-25).