² in which you formerly walked in accordance with the [present] age^[a] of this world, in accordance with the ruler of the authority^[b] of the air, of ^[c] the spirit^[d] now being at-work in the sons of ^[e] disobedience, ³ among whom even we all formerly conducted-ourselves^[f] in the desires of our flesh, doing the wants^[g] of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of ^[h] wrath, as also the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,