Ephesians 2:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

In 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;

Cross References

Job 1:16

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:19

When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

Job 1:7

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

Job 31:7

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

Psalm 17:14

With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Isaiah 30:1

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

Isaiah 57:4

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

Hosea 10:9

O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

Leviticus 11:16

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

Matthew 11:19

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

Matthew 13:22

And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.

Matthew 13:38

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

Mark 4:19

And the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, and the desire for other things coming in, put a stop to the growth of the word, and it gives no fruit.

Luke 16:8

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

Luke 22:31

Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

John 12:31

Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

John 13:2

So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,

John 13:27

And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.

John 14:30

After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

John 15:19

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

John 16:11

Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

John 7:7

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

John 8:23

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

Acts 19:35

And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Romans 12:2

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

1 Corinthians 5:10

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

Galatians 1:4

Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:

Ephesians 1:21

Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

Ephesians 2:11

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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.

Ephesians 4:17

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

Ephesians 4:22

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

Ephesians 5:6

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

Ephesians 5:8

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

Ephesians 6:12

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

James 1:7

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

James 4:4

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

1 Peter 4:3

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

1 John 3:10

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

1 John 3:8

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

1 John 4:4

You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:19

We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.

1 John 5:4

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

Revelation 12:9

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

Revelation 13:14

And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

Revelation 13:8

And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.

Revelation 16:17

And the seventh let what was in his vessel come out on the air; and there came out a great voice from the house of God, from the high seat, saying, It is done.

Revelation 20:2

And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years,