I am like all others who are about to die; all my strength is gone.

I am abandoned among the dead; I am like the slain lying in their graves, those you have forgotten completely, who are beyond your help.

In the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins.

Actually all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger.

that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience he brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved.

You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were Gentiles without the Law. But God has now brought you to life with Christ. God forgave us all our sins;

But a widow who gives herself to pleasure has already died, even though she lives.

or sleeping like a stillborn child.

May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.

Last of all he appeared also to me---even though I am like someone whose birth was abnormal.