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, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all 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 Your commandments and from Your judgments.

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

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

But the Scripture shut up all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

For the time of life which is past is enough for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, parties, carousings, 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 you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who in past generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

For as you also then disbelieved God, but now have been shown mercy through their disbelief,

you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true Light now shines.

In the

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

and the cares of this world, and the deceit of riches, and the lust about other things entering in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

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

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take thought beforehand for the lusts of the flesh.

I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

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

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

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

Dearly beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

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

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live 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, leading lives according to their lusts. And their mouth speaks proud things, admiring faces for the sake of gain.

Fulfilling

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

Then having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Desires

who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God.

By

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth.

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

And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

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

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

Behold, I was brought forth 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,

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

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

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

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

Even

What then? Do we excel? No, in no way; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks all with being under sin,

For who makes you to differ from another? And 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

and the ostrich, and the great owl, and the gull, and small hawks, according to its kind,

And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt. And you shall be careful to do these statutes.

We love Him because He first loved us.