Ephesians 2:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Can anyone make the unclean clean? No one can.

Job 25:4

How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions; my sin is always before me.

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.

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.

John 1:13

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.

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 14:16

In past generations he allowed all Gentiles to go their own ways;

Romans 1:24

Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.

Romans 11:30

Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

Romans 2:14

For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law.

Romans 5:10

Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 5:9

How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath.

Romans 6:12

Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.

Romans 7:18

For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. The willing is ready at hand, but doing the good is not.

Romans 9:22

What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction?

1 Corinthians 4:7

Who confers distinction upon you? What do you possess that you have not received? But if you have received it, why are you boasting as if you did not receive it?

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, making holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 3:22

But scripture confined all things under the power of sin, that through faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe. What Faith Has Brought Us.

Ephesians 2:2

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.

Ephesians 4:22

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

Colossians 1:21

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

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.

1 Timothy 6:9

Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14

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

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!

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 John 2:8

And yet I do write a new commandment to you, which holds true in him and among you, for the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.