Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature [the flesh] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.
We are "objects of wrath," deserving of the execution death Jesus suffered, by the very nature we have, before we even do any of the things to follow its desires and thoughts. We only do those things because of the sinfulness of our human nature.
And after we are saved from that sinfulness and given a new nature, from above, powered by God's own Holy Spirit, then we are able to choose to do those good works that God planned ahead of time for us to do.
