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

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 Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all.

And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy commandments and from thine ordinances.

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of the nations,

but the scripture has shut up all things under sin, that the promise, on the principle of faith of Jesus Christ, should be given to those that believe.

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed 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 testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

For as indeed ye also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of these;

who once were not a people, but now God's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.

In the

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

and the cares of life, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error,

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

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Fulfilling

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be:

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

Desires

who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of God.

By

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.

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

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

Who can bring a clean man out of the unclean? Not one!

What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?

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

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But there was a man from among the Pharisees, his name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not.

We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of the nations,

Even

What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

General references

and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and thou shalt keep and do these statutes.

We love because he has first loved us.