For when we were still in weakness, Christ died in due time for the ungodly. For the ungodly!

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

Still, by way of refreshing your memory, I have written you with a certain freedom, in virtue of my divine commission

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.