Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age — grace functions pedagogically (paideuousa), discipling believers toward virtue through its very appearance. The rejection of ungodliness (asebeia) and worldly desires (kosmikai epithumiai) involves ascetical discipline, while positive cultivation of sophrosyne (self-control), dikaiosyne (uprightness), and eusebeia (godliness) reshapes character. The present age (en tō nyn aiōni) acknowledges the eschatological tension: training occurs now, awaiting future glory.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

Publish a note on this verse