Paul is writing to believers in the city of Ephesus, and he describes their conversion: 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air [that’s a way that Paul alludes to Satan, our old friend from Genesis 3], the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature