The spiritual world is a reality, and the godliness and Christlikeness that compose it must also be realities. Put away from you the fatuous [silly and pointless] idea that things will somehow come all right, and that your character will adapt itself to changed surroundings. It is not so; nothing that defiles can find entrance into the kingdom of God, but only those who are “sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”

“The First Epistle to the Corinthians” by Marcus Dods in The Expositor’s Bible, Vol. 5, 659.