3 among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses,*This is the way people who do not belong to Christ may be expected to act. Far from being surprised, we should count on it, and our strategies (for living and evangelizing) should count on it. and were by nature children of wrath,*To be in rebellion against the Creator is to be under His wrath. just like the rest. 4 But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions—made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)