All of us [Jews] also once lived among such people, fulfilling the improper cravings of our physical being and doing what our bodies and minds desired. In this natural [unconverted] state we were deserving of [God's] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind].

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

for the natural effect of light, is universal benevolence, justice, and truth:

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;