Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

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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.

In Context

2In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

4But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

Job 14:4If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

Job 25:4How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

Isaiah 53:6We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Daniel 9:5We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

Mark 7:21Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

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 →

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