You also were dead because of the offenses and sins

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands.

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

But now through your union with Christ Jesus you who were once far away have through the blood of Christ been brought near.

He came with the good news of peace for you who were far away and for those who were near;

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

That is the way husbands ought to love their wives??s if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself,

Do your duties heartily and willingly, as though it were for the Lord, not for men,