Ephesians 2:3

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.

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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

2For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air – the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

4Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,

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Cross References

Genesis 6:5When the Lord saw that people’s wickedness was increasing in the world, and that the trend of their thoughts was at all times toward evil,

Mark 7:21for it is from within, out of the hearts of people, that there come evil thoughts – sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

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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