3 Among them *we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, *indulging the desires of the flesh and of the *mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as 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 wrongdoings, made us alive together *with Christ (by grace you have been saved),