for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

For no one has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…