Ephesians 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God].

American Standard Version (1901)

² wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

Common English Bible

² You used to live like people of this world. You followed the rule of a destructive spiritual power. This is the spirit of disobedience to God’s will that is now at work in persons whose lives are characterized by disobedience.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

Ephesians 2:2 Krydshenvisninger

Job 1:16

While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:7

The Lord said to the accuser, “Where have you come from?” The accuser answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.”

Job 31:7

if my step has turned aside from the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Psalm 17:14

from mortals—by your hand, O Lord— from mortals whose portion in life is in this world. May their bellies be filled with what you have stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their little ones.

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan but not mine; who make an alliance but against my will, adding sin to sin;

Isaiah 57:4

Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit—

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.

Hosea 10:9

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

Matthew 11:19

the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil one,

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the age and the lure of wealth and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

Luke 22:31

“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat,

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

John 13:2

The devil had already decided that Judas son of Simon Iscariot would betray Jesus. And during supper

John 13:27

After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Do quickly what you are going to do.”

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 16:11

about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.

John 8:23

He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are from this world, I am not from this world.

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 19:35

But when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Citizens of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?

Acts 5:3

“Ananias,” Peter asked, “why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Corinthians 5:10

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 1:21

far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come.

Ephesians 2:11

So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands—

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,

Ephesians 6:12

for our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:21

And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:7

For the doubter, being double-minded and unstable in every way, must not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

1 John 3:10

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.

1 John 3:8

Everyone who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived,

Revelation 13:8

and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.

Revelation 16:17

The seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years