Ephesians 2:2

Worrell

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 we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;

that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;

But the town-clerk, having quieted the multitude, says, "Men of Ephesus, who, indeed, of men is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image that fell down from Jupiter?

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in evil works,

in which things ye also formerly walked, when ye were living in these things.

For the time past is sufficient to have wrought the will of the gentiles, having walked in wantonness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revelings, carousings, and impious idolatries;

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

Walked according

And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness, because he acted prudently; because the sons of this age are more prudent toward their own generation, than the sons of light.

The world cannot hate you; but Me it hates, 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 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, on this account the world hates you.

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

not at all meaning, with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; since ye ought, in that event, to go out of the world;

Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;

for Demas forsook me, having loved this present age, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens, to Galatia; Titus, to Dalmatia.

For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

Adulteresses! know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, purposes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

because all that has been begotten of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

The prince

because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because 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 will no more speak much with you; for the Prince of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;

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

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

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

And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the founding of a world.

And he seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Of the air

And the seventh poured out his bowl into the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the Temple, from the throne, saying, "it has come to pass!"

The spirit

"But, when the unclean spirit goes out from the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not.

"When the strong man, fully armed, is guarding his own court, his goods are in peace;

and the high priests and scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were fearing the people.

And, supper being in progress, the Devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him,

But Peter said, "Ananias, why did Satan fill your heart, that you should lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?

in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them.

He that commits sin is of the Devil; because the Devil sins from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil.

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

General references

in which things ye also formerly walked, when ye were living in these things.