Ephesians 2:2

James Moffatt - New Testament

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air — the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Cross References

Ephesians 6:12

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

John 12:31

Now is this world to be judged; now the Prince of this world will be expelled.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:22

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

there the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to prevent them seeing the light thrown by the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God.

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world.

1 John 3:10

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

1 Peter 1:14

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

Revelation 20:2

he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,

1 John 4:4

My dear children, you belong to God, and you have conquered all such, for He who is within you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 Peter 4:3

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Colossians 1:21

Once you were estranged yourselves, your hearts hostile to him in evildoing; but now he has reconciled you by dying in his mortal body,

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world — by the will of our God and Father,

Romans 12:2

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

James 4:4

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

1 Corinthians 5:10

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Acts 5:3

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me;

2 Peter 2:14

their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

John 16:11

of judgment, because the Prince of this world has been judged.

John 13:27

and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."

John 13:2

so at supper, knowing that though the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

John 8:23

He said to them, "You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world.

John 7:7

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

Revelation 13:8

and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.

1 John 3:8

he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. (This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the deeds of the devil.)

James 1:7

that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,

Acts 19:35

The secretary of state then got the mob calmed down, and said to them, "Men of Ephesus, who on earth does not know that the city of Ephesus is Warden of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell from heaven?

Luke 22:31

Simon, Simon, Satan has claimed the right to sift you all like wheat,

Luke 16:8

Well, the master praised the dishonest factor for looking ahead; for the children of this world look further ahead in dealing with their own generation than the children of Light.

Matthew 11:19

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

Revelation 16:17

The seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air; then came a loud voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne, crying, "All is over!"

Revelation 13:14

and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,

Revelation 12:9

So the huge dragon was thrown down — that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world — thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.

Matthew 13:22

As for him who is sown 'among thorns,' that is the man who listens to the word, but the worry of the world and the delight of being rich choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

Mark 4:19

but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

Ephesians 1:21

above all the angelic Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Lords, above every Name that is to be named not only in this age but in the age to come —

Ephesians 2:11

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh —

Ephesians 2:13

Whereas now, within Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 4:17

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

Ephesians 5:8

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

James 1:27

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.