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

Revelation 16:17

The spirit

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

In time

among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

But when the Recorder had quieted the multitude, he said, Men of Ephesus, who is there among men that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

And you, that were once alienated, and enemies in your mind in wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them;

For sufficient is the time past to have wrought the will of the gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, carousings, and abominable idolatries;

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth under the dominion of the Evil One.

Walked according

And the lord commended the unjust steward for having done wisely; for the sons of this world are wiser toward their generation than the sons of light.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of 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 ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

and be not conformed to the fashion of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that ye may learn by experience what is the will of God, what is good, and wellpleasing, and perfect.

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from the present evil world, according to the will of God our Father;

For Demas forsook me, because he loved the present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

For let not that man think that he shall receive anything from the Lord,

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooseth to be a friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

because whatever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

The prince

for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the worldrulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of evil in the heavenly regions.

Ye are of your father the Devil, and what your father desireth ye are ready to do. He was a murderer from the beginning; and he abideth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Now is the judgment of this world; now will the prince of this world be cast out;

I shall not talk much more with you. For the prince of the world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth under the dominion of the Evil One.

And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

And all who dwell on the earth wilt worship him, every one whose name hath not been written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.

And he laid hold of the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Of the air

And the seventh poured out his vial upon the air; and there came forth a loud voice from the temple, from the throne, saying, It is done.

The spirit

But when the unclean spirit is gone out from a man, it goeth through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.

When a strong man armed guardeth his palace, his goods are in peace;

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

And supper being served,the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,

But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?

in whom the God of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, so that they cannot behold the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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

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

General references

In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them;