Ephesians
Chapters 2:1-6
St Paul from the Trenches 1916
1You, however, were deprived of life, involved in transgressions and contradiction of His law, in sins and errors,
2living merely as members of an age, a universe not under God, but under a power working invisibly in the air as ruler of the world by means of a spirit, a leaven that handles the minds and souls of those who exist in disobedience.
3In this condition which you shared with the rest of the blind world, a condition to which are attached all the desires of the flesh, motions of the will, and of thoughts, belonging not to the children of God, but to the children of the wrath of God, denizens of a misbegotten state —
4in such a condition the charity and kindness of God which abound beyond all measure, making continual proof of the compassion and mercy that flow from Him, saved you and me from this death, this subjection to sin.
5The Christ who reigns so gloriously above all that is averse from him, he gave us life — for giving is his law, and by a gift we live.
6God raised us out of it all with Christ, and He sat us down on the right hand of power with Him and gave us dominion,