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“All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.”

“in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.”

“in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.”

“For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.”

“Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.”

“They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.””

“When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.”

“But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.”