Ephesians 2:3

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Ephesians 2:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

1 John 1:8

In times

In the

Fulfilling

Romans 8:7

2 Corinthians 7:1

Galatians 5:19

Desires

John 1:13

By

Galatians 2:15

Even

Romans 3:9

1 Corinthians 4:7

General references

1 John 4:19

Bible References

We

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,

We, who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

But the scripture has shut up all under sin, that the promise by faith in Christ Jesus may be given to those who believe.

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

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

In times

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds,

who, in past generations, permitted all the nations to walk in their own ways;

Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:

For as you formerly did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief;

who formerly were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

Again, a new commandment I do write to you, which is true as it respects him and you; because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

In the

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

You are of your father, the devil; and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the be ginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks that which is false, he speaks from what is his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.

For which reason God delivered them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, that they might dishonor their bodies among themselves;

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

But those who will be rich fail into temptation and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the desires which you formerly had in your ignorance;

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

For by speaking boastful words of folly, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, and through lasciviousness, those who had really escaped from those who live in error.

For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

These are murmurers, fault-finders, walking ac cording to their own desires; and their mouth speaks boastful words, while they admire persons for the sake of gain.

Fulfilling

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every pollution of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

Desires

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

By

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders,

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

For this reason, as by one man sin entered into the world, and by his sin, death; and so death passed through to all men, because all have sinned:

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

We, who are Jews by birth, and not Gentile sinners,

Even

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?

General references

We love him, because he first loved us.