Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
sometime—"once."
walked . . . when ye lived in them—These sins were the very element in which ye "lived" (before ye became once for all dead with Christ to them); no wonder, then, that ye "walked" in them. Compare on the opposite side, "living in the Spirit," having as its legitimate consequence, "walking in the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25). The "living" comes first in both cases, the walking follows.
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