That’s the way you lived at one time in your life.

当你们在这些事中活着的时候，也曾这样行过。

当你们在这些事中活着的时候，你们的行为也曾是这样的。

当你们在这些事中活着的时候，你们的行为也曾是这样的。

你们过去也和他们一样过着罪恶的生活，

你们从前在其中生活的时候，也曾经这样行过。

当你们从前生活在这些事中的时候，也在其中生活。

當你們在這些事中活着的時候，也曾這樣行過。

當你們在這些事中活着的時候，你們的行為也曾是這樣的。

當你們在這些事中活着的時候，你們的行為也曾是這樣的。

你們過去也和他們一樣過著罪惡的生活，

你們從前在其中生活的時候，也曾經這樣行過。

從前你們在此種種之中生活的時候、你們也曾在其中行過。

當你們從前生活在這些事中的時候，也在其中生活。

爾昔生於斯、亦嘗出入其間也、

爾生於其間、曾行之、

昔爾生於罪惡中、亦曾行之、

爾等舊日生活、亦嘗沉溺於此；

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.

You used to do these things when your life was still part of this world.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

You used to live as sinners when you followed the ways of this world. You served the one who rules over the spiritual forces of evil. He is the spirit who is now at work in those who don’t obey God.

Because you are human, you find this hard to understand. So I am using an everyday example to help you understand. You used to give yourselves to be slaves to unclean living. You were becoming more and more evil. Now give yourselves to be slaves to right living. Then you will become holy.Once you were slaves of sin. At that time right living did not control you.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life. You longed for evil things. You got drunk. You went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which the Lord hates.Ungodly people are surprised that you no longer join them in what they do. They want you to join them in their wild and wasteful living. So they say bad things about you.

Some of you used to do those things. But your sins were washed away. You were made holy. You were made right with God. All of this was done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was also done by the Spirit of our God.

At one time we too acted like fools. We didn’t obey God. We were tricked. We were controlled by all kinds of desires and pleasures. We were full of evil. We wanted what belongs to others. People hated us, and we hated one another.

The power of sin used to control us. The law stirred up sinful desires in us. So the things we did resulted in death.

At one time you were dead in your sins. Your desires controlled by sin were not circumcised. But God gave you new life together with Christ. He forgave us all our sins.