Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

In time

Ephesians 2:3
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
Ephesians 4:22
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
Job 31:7
“If my step has turned from the way,
Or my heart followed my eyes,
Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
Acts 19:35
After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?
1 Corinthians 6:11
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Colossians 1:21
And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
Colossians 3:7
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.
1 Peter 4:3
For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Walked according

Psalm 17:14
From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babes.
Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.
Luke 16:8
And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 8:23
And He was saying to them, You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Corinthians 5:10
I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.
Galatians 1:4
who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
James 1:7
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

The prince

Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 12:31
Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
John 14:30
I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;
John 16:11
and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain.
Revelation 20:2
And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

Of the air

Job 1:7
The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
Revelation 16:17
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.”

The spirit

Matthew 12:43
Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.
Luke 11:21
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.
Luke 22:2
The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.
John 13:2
During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
Acts 5:3
But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 John 3:8
the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 4:4
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

General references

Leviticus 11:16
and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,
Deuteronomy 16:12
You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
Colossians 3:7
and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.