for you were at one time darkness, but now you are ¹  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. ¹ 

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 ¹  by human hands –

For no one has ever hated his own body ¹  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

in which ¹  you formerly lived ²  according to this world’s present path, ³  according to the ruler of the kingdom ⁴  of the air, the ruler of ⁵  the spirit ⁶  that is now energizing ⁷  the sons of disobedience, ⁸ 

among whom ¹  all of us ²  also ³  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 ⁴  even as the rest… ⁵