Ephesians 2:2

Haweis

Ephesians 2:2

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:

In time

Walked according

The prince

Of the air

Revelation 16:17

The spirit

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

In time

among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions;

Then the recorder having quieted the multitude, said, Men of Ephesus, who indeed is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is wholly devoted to the great goddess Diana, and to the image which fell down from Jupiter?

Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

And you who in time past were all aliens, and enemies in mind by wicked works, hath he now reconciled,

in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them:

For the time past of life is enough for us to have wrought the will of the heathen, when we walked in all impurities, lewd appetites, excess of wine, revels, drinking-bouts, and abominable idolatries;

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

Walked according

And the master praised the unjust steward, because he had acted providently: for the children of this world are more provident among their own generation of men, than the children of light.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

And he said to them, Ye are from those beneath; I am from those above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might pluck us out of this present wicked world, according to the will of God and our Father:

for Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is gone unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord.

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Because every one that is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

The prince

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the ruler of this world be ejected out [of it].

I shall not speak many things more with you: for the ruler of this world is coming, though in me he hath no part.

and of judgment, because the ruler of this world hath sentence pronounced on him.

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

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the Devil, and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

And all the inhabitants who dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

and he seized on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Of the air

And the seventh angel poured out his vase into the air; and a loud voice come out from the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

The spirit

When the unclean spirit is indeed gone out of a man, he traverses through places destitute of water, in search of rest, but cannot find it.

When a strong man, in complete armour, guards his palace, his goods are in peace.

And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might destroy him; for they were afraid of the people.

And supper being served, (the devil having now injected into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, that he should betray him;)

But Peter said, O Ananias! why hath Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost, and secrete something from the price of the estate?

among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dart its bright beams upon them.

he that practises sin is of the devil; for from the beginning the devil sinneth. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Ye are of God, my dear children, and have overcome them; because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.

General references

in which ye also walked formerly when ye lived among them: