Paul explains: “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. ”
همچنین در رابطه با انتخاب دوست ،‏ عاقلانه است که روحانیت شخص را مِلاک قرار دهیم ،‏ نه ظاهر و یا قدرت مالی وی را .‏