And you, being dead in your false steps [transgressions/trespasses] and sins 2 in which at one time you walked in the manner of the time period of this present world, according to the ruler of the authority/power of the [lower] air [around the earth (as opposed to the heavens)], the spirit which is now at work in the sons of disobedience [(vs. the sons of God in 1:5)] 3 among whom all of us, too, lived at one time in the desires of our flesh doing the will of the flesh and the will of our notions, and we were, by nature [as opposed to adopted], children of wrath, as is everyone.  4 But since God is rich in mercy, through his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we were dead in our false steps he made us alive with Christ – by grace you have been saved – 6 and raised and seated us in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus 7 so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, 8 because it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, 9 not by works so that no none may boast.  10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared ahead of time so that we may walk in them.