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

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? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

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

But the Scripture has bound everyone under sin, so that that what was promised by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

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

In times

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds,

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways;

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

In the

You were taught, with regard to your former manner of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful lusts;

but the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its passions.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against your soul.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity, they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.

For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of the Father but is of the world.

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for their own advantage.

Fulfilling

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so;

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Desires

who were born, 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, come evil thoughts, fornications, theft, murder, adultery,

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

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will to do what is good, but I cannot do it.

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

Even

What then? Are we Jews any better off? Certainly not; for we have already charged that all men, both Jews and Greeks, are under the power of sin.

For who regards you as different? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

General references

We love because he first loved us.