Ephesians 2:2

New American Bible - revised edition

in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.

Cross References

Job 1:16

He was still speaking when another came and said, “God’s fire has fallen from heaven and struck the sheep and the servants and consumed them; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind came from across the desert and smashed the four corners of the house. It fell upon the young people and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.” Job’s Reaction.

Job 1:7

The Lord said to the satan, “Where have you been?” Then the satan answered the Lord and said, “Roaming the earth and patrolling it.”

Job 31:7

If my steps have turned out of the way, and my heart has followed my eyes, or any stain clings to my hands,

Psalm 17:14

Slay them with your sword; with your hand, Lord, slay them; snatch them from the world in their prime. Their bellies are being filled with your friends; their children are satisfied too, for they share what is left with their young.

Isaiah 30:1

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;

Isaiah 57:4

Against whom do you make sport, against whom do you open wide your mouth, and stick out your tongue? Are you not rebellious children, deceitful offspring—

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is filled with adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are withered. Theirs is an evil course, theirs is unjust power.

Hosea 10:9

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, Israel. There they took their stand; will war not reach them in Gibeah? Against a perverse people

Leviticus 11:16

the eagle owl, the kestrel, the long-eared owl, the various species of hawks,

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one,

Mark 4:19

but worldly anxiety, the lure of riches, and the craving for other things intrude and choke the word, and it bears no fruit.

Luke 16:8

And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

Luke 22:31

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

John 12:31

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

John 13:2

The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,

John 13:27

After he took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

John 14:30

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

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 16:11

condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

John 7:7

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

John 8:23

He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil and you willingly carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 19:35

Finally the town clerk restrained the crowd and said, “You Ephesians, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from the sky?

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you lied to the holy Spirit and retained part of the price of the land?

Romans 12:2

Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. Many Parts in One Body.

1 Corinthians 5:10

not at all referring to the immoral of this world or the greedy and robbers or idolaters; for you would then have to leave the world.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. Sexual Immorality.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they may not see 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 that he might rescue us from the present evil age in accord with the will of our God and Father,

Ephesians 1:21

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

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore, remember that at one time you, Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision, which is done in the flesh by human hands,

Ephesians 2:13

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

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.

Ephesians 4:17

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

Ephesians 4:22

that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,

Ephesians 5:6

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

Ephesians 5:8

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

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.

Colossians 1:21

And you who once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, enamored of the present world, deserted me and went to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:27

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

James 1:7

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord,

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.

2 Peter 2:14

Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children!

1 John 3:10

In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:8

Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:4

You belong to God, children, and you 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 belong to God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:4

for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.

Revelation 12:9

The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:14

It deceived the inhabitants of the earth with the signs it was allowed to perform in the sight of the first beast, telling them to make an image for the beast who had been wounded by the sword and revived.

Revelation 13:8

All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain.

Revelation 16:17

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

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years