Ephesians 2:3

among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;

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In The King James Version

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 ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

4but God, who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us, gave to us,

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Cross References

Job 14:4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.

Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?

Isaiah 53:6All we, like sheep, were going astray; We turned every one to his own way, And Jehovah laid upon him the iniquity of us all.

Daniel 9:5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and thy statutes.

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth evil thoughts, fornications,

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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