Ephesians 2:2

in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

John 12:31

The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,

Ephesians 6:12

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

Ephesians 2:3

We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.

Ephesians 5:6

Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

John 8:44

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

Ephesians 4:22

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

Matthew 11:19

Now that the Son of Man has come, he does eat and drink, and people say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drinker, the companion of tax-collectors and irreligious people!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions!"

Matthew 12:43-45

"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world. The good seed is the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked.

Luke 11:21-26

When a strong man fully armed guards his own dwelling, his property is undisturbed.

Luke 16:8

And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.

Luke 22:2-3

And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

Luke 22:31

O Simon, Simon! Satan has obtained permission to sift all of you like wheat,

John 7:7

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

John 8:23

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

John 13:2

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

John 13:27

After he took the bread, Satan took possession of him. Then Jesus said to him, "Be quick about your business."

John 14:30

I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

John 16:11

and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.

Acts 5:3

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

Acts 19:35

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

Romans 12:2

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

Galatians 1:4

who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.

Colossians 1:21

And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you

Colossians 3:6-7

It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming.

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:7

Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

James 4:4

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

1 Peter 4:3

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes for nobody but adulterous women??yes insatiable in sin. They lure unsteadfast souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are accursed!

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

1 John 3:8

Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.

1 John 3:10

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

1 John 4:4

You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:4

for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.

Revelation 12:9

So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.

Revelation 13:14

It leads the inhabitants of the earth astray by the wonders it is allowed to do on behalf of the animal, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the animal that bears the mark of the sword-thrust and yet lives.

Revelation 16:17

The seventh emptied his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is all over!"

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

Of the air

General references

Bible References

In time

Ephesians 2:3
We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.
Ephesians 4:22
You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.
Acts 19:35
At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?
1 Corinthians 6:11
Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
Colossians 1:21
And it has brought you, who were once estranged from him, hostile in attitude and engaged in doing wrong (though now he has reconciled you
Colossians 3:7
And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.
1 Peter 4:3
You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

Walked according

Luke 16:8
And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder in their relation to their own age than the sons of the light.
John 7:7
It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.
John 8:23
He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
Romans 12:2
You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Galatians 1:4
who to save us from the present wicked world gave himself for our sins at the will of our God and Father.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
James 1:7
Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.
James 4:4
You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.
1 John 2:15
Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
1 John 5:4
for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.

The prince

Ephesians 6:12
For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.
John 8:44
The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.
John 12:31
The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,
John 14:30
I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,
John 16:11
and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.
1 John 5:19
We know that we are children of God, while the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9
So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Revelation 13:8
All the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not from the foundation of the world been written in the slain Lamb's book of life, will worship it.
Revelation 20:2
He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Of the air

Revelation 16:17
The seventh emptied his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is all over!"

The spirit

Matthew 12:43
"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.
Luke 11:21
When a strong man fully armed guards his own dwelling, his property is undisturbed.
Luke 22:2
And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.
John 13:2
So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Acts 5:3
And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
1 John 3:8
Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.
1 John 4:4
You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.

General references

Colossians 3:7
And you once practiced them as others do, when you lived that old earthly life.