Re: The Early Christians: Self-Portraits and Portrayals

Many men and women who were Christ’s disciples from their youth remain 
chaste even though they live to the age of sixty or seventy. I believe I
am 
able to prove that there are such people in every class of men - not to 
mention the countless throng of those who, after leading a licentious
life, 
have repented and accepted these teachings. Christ did not call the 
righteous and abstemious to a change of heart but the godless, the 
dissolute, and the unjust.	

Justin, First Apology 15.