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

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

You took off

your former way of life, the old self

that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

If my step has turned from the way,
my heart has followed my eyes,
or impurity has stained my hands,

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

Walked according

With Your hand, Lord, save me from men,
from men of the world
whose portion is in this life:
You fill their bellies with what You have in store;
their sons are satisfied,
and they leave their surplus to their children.

For the land is full of adulterers;
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life has become evil,
and their power is not rightly used

“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

for Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

Adulteresses!

Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

The prince

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan,

the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan,

and bound him for 1,000 years.

Of the air

The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

Then the seventh poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary

from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

The spirit

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his estate, his possessions are secure.

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God.

The one who commits sin is of the Devil, for the Devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the Devil’s works.

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

General references

the ostrich,
the short-eared owl, the gull,
any kind of hawk,

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt; carefully follow these statutes.

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.