Ephesians 2:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world,  according to the ruler of the power of the air,  the spirit  now working in the disobedient.

Cross References

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh  and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,  against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil,  spiritual forces in the heavens.

1 John 5:19

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

Ephesians 2:3

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly  desires, carrying out the inclinations  of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath  as the others were also.

John 12:31

Now is the judgement of this world.   Now the ruler of this world   will be cast out.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath  is coming on the disobedient  because of these things.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil,   and you want to carry out 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,   because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:22

to take off  , your former way of life,  the old self  that is corrupted by deceitful desires,

1 Corinthians 6:11

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

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this age  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 image of God.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.

1 John 3:10

This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.

1 Peter 1:14

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

Revelation 20:2

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

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you  is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 Peter 4:3

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires,  drunkenness, orgies,  carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds, as expressed in your evil actions.

Galatians 1:4

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

Romans 12:2

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

James 4:4

You adulterous people!  Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.

1 Corinthians 5:10

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy  and swindlers  or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

Acts 5:3

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

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen   you out of it, the world hates you.

John 14:30

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world   is coming. He has no power over me.   ,

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children! This is the  Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan,  but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.

Job 1:7

The Lord asked Satan, ‘Where have you come from? ’ ‘From roaming through the earth,’  Satan answered him, ‘and walking around on it.’

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery  that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

John 16:11

and about judgement,   because the ruler of this world   has been judged.

John 13:27

After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan  entered him. So Jesus told him, ‘What you’re doing, do quickly.’

John 13:2

Now when it was time for supper, the devil  had already put it into the heart of Judas,  Simon Iscariot’s son,  to betray  him.

John 8:23

‘You are from below,’ he told them, ‘I am from above.   You are of this world;   I am not of this world.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate   you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world; and the good seed #– #these are the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one,

Revelation 13:8

All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book  of life  of the Lamb who was slaughtered.  ,

1 John 3:8

The one who commits  sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God  was revealed  for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.

James 1:7

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord,

2 Timothy 4:10

because Demas  has deserted me,  since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica.  Crescens has gone to Galatia,  Titus  to Dalmatia.

Acts 19:35

When the town clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, ‘People of Ephesus! What person is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great  Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

Luke 22:31

‘Simon, Simon,   look out. Satan   has asked to sift you   like wheat.

Luke 16:8

‘The master praised the unrighteous manager   because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age   are more shrewd than the children of light   in dealing with their own people.

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.’

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns  because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life  has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,

Isaiah 57:4

Who are you mocking? Who are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue at? Isn’t it you, you rebellious children, you offspring of liars,

Job 31:7

If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,

Revelation 16:17

Then the seventh  poured out his bowl into the air,  and a loud voice came out of the temple  , from the throne, saying, ‘It is done! ’

Revelation 13:14

It deceives those who live on the earth  because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast,  telling those who live on the earth to make an image  of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 12:9

So the great dragon was thrown out #– #the ancient serpent,  who is called the devil and Satan,  the one who deceives the whole world.  He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

Hosea 10:9

Israel, you have sinned since the days of Gibeah; they have taken their stand there. Will not war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?

Job 1:19

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’

Job 1:16

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, ‘God’s fire fell from heaven.  It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’

Matthew 13:22

Now the one sown among the thorns #– #this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age   and the deceitfulness   of wealth   choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Mark 4:19

but the worries   of this age,   the deceitfulness   , of wealth,   and the desires   for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Ephesians 1:21

far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given,  , not only in this age but also in the one to come.

Ephesians 2:11

So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh #– #called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those called ‘the circumcised’,  which is done in the flesh by human hands.

Ephesians 2:13

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

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.

Ephesians 5:8

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

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows  in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Leviticus 11:16

ostriches, short-eared owls, gulls, any kind of hawk,