Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

It might be that the vast increase of wealth in the last fifty years has insensibly introduced a plague of worldliness, self-indulgence, and love of ease into social life. What were once called luxuries are now comforts and necessaries, and self-denial and enduring hardness are consequently little known (2 Timothy 2:3).