In the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians Chapter 3 verses 5-11Renunciation of Vices

5) ‘Put to death whatever in your nature is rooted on earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion,evil desires, and that lust which is idolatry. 6)These are the sins which provoke God’s wrath. 7)Your own conduct was once of this sort, when these sins were your very life. 8)You must put that aside now: all the anger and quick temper, the malice, the insults, the foul language. 9) Stop lying to one another. What you have done is put aside your old self with its past deeds 10) and put on a new man, one who grows in knowledge as he is formed anew in the image of his Creator. 11) There is no Greek or Jew here, circumcised or uncircumcised, foreigner, Scythian, slave, or freemen. Rather Christ is everything in all of you.’