1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
When Jesus said that he had come to seek and save the lost it was with the understanding that we should turn away from the sin that traps us in our evil lives.
God does not call us to continue on in the same old ways because He knows those ways will corrupt us and seek to drive us away from Him.
He wants us to turn from the evil and seek all that is good; seeking His ways instead of the world’s ways.
When we want to be close to Jesus we need to know we should also be turning away from everything that draws us away from Him in the first place…