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 also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

If my step doth turn aside from the way, And after mine eyes hath my heart gone, And to my hands cleaved hath blemish,

And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, 'Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;

for sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

Walked according

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

For of adulterers hath the land been full, For because of these hath the land mourned, Dried up hath been the pleasant places of the wilderness, And their course is evil, and their might -- not right.

'And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

and he said to them, 'Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what is the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and not certainly with the whoremongers of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, seeing ye ought then to go forth out of the world --

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;

The prince

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

Of the air

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Whence comest thou?' And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'From going to and fro in the land, and from walking up and down on it.'

And the seventh messenger did pour out his vial to the air, and there came forth a great voice from the sanctuary of the heaven, from the throne, saying, 'It hath come!'

The spirit

'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

'When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

And supper being come, the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

And Peter said, 'Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

Ye -- of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you, than he who is in the world.

General references

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and hast observed and done these statutes.

in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;