Ephesians 2:3
Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
4But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Daniel 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances,
Mark 7:21For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:2-4
State of the Ephesians by Nature. ( a. d. 61.) 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 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. The miserable condition… Read the whole commentary →