Shall I be a friend to that which was [Christ’s] deadly enemy?  Shall sin be sweet to me, which was so bitter to Him; and that for my sake?  Shall I ever lend it a good look, or entertain a favourable thought of that which shed my Lord’s blood?  Shall I live in that for which He died, and died to kill me?

F. B. Meyer, Tried by Fire: Expositions of the First Epistle of Peter, p. 151.