Ephesians 2:2

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Ephesians 2:2

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Summary

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

In time

Walked according

The prince

Of the air

Job 1:7

Revelation 16:17

The spirit

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Deuteronomy 16:12

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

In time

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

Walked according

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

The prince

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,

Of the air

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

And the seventh let what was in his vessel come out on the air; and there came out a great voice from the house of God, from the high seat, saying, It is done.

The spirit

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:

And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people.

So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

General references

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.