Ephesians 2:3

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Ephesians 2:3

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Summary

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

We

In times

In the

Fulfilling

Romans 8:7

2 Corinthians 7:1

Galatians 5:19

Desires

John 1:13

By

Even

Romans 3:9

1 Corinthians 4:7

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Deuteronomy 16:12

1 John 4:19

Bible References

We

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,

What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we already charged both Jews and Greeks to all be under sin,

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

We are Jews by nature and not sinful men of the Gentiles,

But scripture confined all things under sin, so that the promise from faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

For enough time of life has past for you to accomplish the will of the Gentiles, having gone in debaucheries, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, drinking parties, and lawless idolatries.

If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.

In times

This I say therefore, and solemnly declare in Lord, for you to walk no longer as also the other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who in the generations that have passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways,

Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.

For as ye once were also disobedient to God, but now have received mercy at the disobedience of these,

Men formerly not a people, but now are a people of God. Men who had not obtained mercy, but who now have obtained mercy.

Again, a new commandment I write to you, which is TRUE in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the TRUE light now shines.

In the

for you to put off the old man according to your former conduct, the man who is corrupt according to the desires of deceitfulness,

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of wealth, and the cravings about other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his

And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

But I say, walk in Spirit and ye will, no, not fulfill a lust of flesh.

But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin.

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.

For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.

Fulfilling

Because the mentality of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not submissive to the law of God, for neither is it able.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

Desires

who were begotten, not from blood, nor from a will of flesh, nor from a will of man, but from God.

By

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And LORD smelled the sweet savor. And LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again any more smite everything

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Because of this, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, in that all sinned.

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, for to will is present in me, but to do the good, I find not.

We are Jews by nature and not sinful men of the Gentiles,

Even

What then? Are we better? Not at all. For we already charged both Jews and Greeks to all be under sin,

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

General references

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind,

and thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in Egypt. And thou shall observe and do these statutes.

We love him, because he first loved us.