Ephesians 2:2

Worsley

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 were all conversant heretofore in our carnal desires, indulging the appetites of the flesh and of our imaginations; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

which according to your former conversation was corrupted with deceitful lusts,

And when the Secretary had appeased the multitude, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is devoted to the service of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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

And you that were formerly alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works,

In which ye also formerly walked, when ye lived among them.

For the time past of our life is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revellings, drunkenness, and abominable idolatries:

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

Walked according

And his master commended the dishonest steward as having acted prudently: for the men of this world are as to their affairs wiser than the children of light.

but me it hates, because I bear my testimony concerning it, that it's deeds are evil.

And He said unto 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 have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then 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 our God and Father:

through love of this world, and is gone to Thessalonica; as is Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia: Luke only is with me.

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

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world; for if any one love the world to excess, the love of the Father is not in him.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that vanquisheth the world, even our faith.

The prince

For our conflict is not with flesh and blood only, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the world and of the darkness of this age, against wicked spirits in heavenly places.

Ye are of your father the devil, and are bent upon doing the lusts of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and continued not in the truth: for there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh like himself, for he is a liar, and the father of such.

Now is the judgement of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

I shall not have much more conversation with you: for the prince of this world is coming; not that he hath any thing in me,

and of judgement, because the prince of this world is judged.

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

And the great dragon was cast out, that 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.

So that all 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 the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Of the air

And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

The spirit

Now when an impure spirit is gone out of a man, he wanders through dry desert places, seeking rest, and findeth none:

for when a strong man well-armed defends his palace, his substance is secure:

And the chief priests and scribes were consulting how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

supper being prepared, (the devil having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him) Jesus,

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan so filled thine heart, that thou shouldst lie to the holy Ghost, and keep back part of the price of the land?

among whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, doth not shine unto them:

he, that makes a practise of sin, is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. And for this the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

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

General references

In which ye also formerly walked, when ye lived among them.