3 Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,
5 caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ –it is by grace that you have been saved–