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 the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable 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 henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

In the

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For 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 own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Fulfilling

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Desires

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

By

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

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

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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

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

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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

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

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

Even

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

General references

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

We love him, because he first loved us.