among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will[a] of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath[b] by nature, as also the rest of them were.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved),

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:3 Or “desires”
  2. Ephesians 2:3 This phrase is a Semitic idiom which can mean either (1) “children characterized by wrath” or (2) “children destined for wrath”