Ephesians 2:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

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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 Cross References

Job 1:16

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

Job 1:19

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

Job 1:7

The Lord said to Satan, “Whence have you come?” Satan 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 gone after my eyes, and if any spot has cleaved to my hands;

Psalm 17:14

from men by thy hand, O Lord, from men whose portion in life is of the world. May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them; may their children have more than enough; may they leave something over to their babes.

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine; and who make a league, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Isaiah 57:4

Of whom are you making sport? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and put 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 is evil, and their might is not right.

Hosea 10:9

From the days of Gibe-ah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibe-ah?

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk according to its kind,

Matthew 11:19

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

Matthew 13:22

As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the delight in riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Matthew 13:38

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

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Luke 22:31

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out;

John 13:2

And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

John 13:27

Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

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 were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 16:11

concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

John 7:7

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

John 8:23

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

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with 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

And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, “Ananias, 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 world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Corinthians 5:10

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

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you. 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 the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us 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 that which is to come;

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—

Ephesians 2:13

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

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 4:17

Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;

Ephesians 4:22

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 5:8

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

Ephesians 6:12

For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who once were 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 and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 1:7

For that person must not suppose that a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways, will receive anything from the Lord.

James 4:4

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

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 4:3

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, 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

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:8

He who commits sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:4

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.

Revelation 12:9

And 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 which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;

Revelation 13:8

and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

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

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,