And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

 There are the irreverent (asebeis, G765) . Asebeis is a terrible word. It describes not indifference nor the lapse into sin. It describes "positive and active irreligion," the spirit which defiantly withholds from God that which is his right. It describes human nature "in battle array against God." 