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

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.

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

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

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 in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil— the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.

Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right.

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy— their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you.

Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.

When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.

You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins.