Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb.”
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
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