Ephesians 2:3-5

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³ All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,^{(A) 4} but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us^{(B) 5} even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ^[a]—by grace you have been saved—