Ephesians 2:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

Genesis 8:21

And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one can.

Job 25:4

How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

Indeed, I was born guilty, a sinner when my mother conceived me.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the age and the lure of wealth and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing.

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do 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 lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 14:16

In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

Romans 11:30

Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 2:14

When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 5:9

Much more surely, therefore, since we have now been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

Romans 7:18

For I know that the good does not dwell within me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do the good lies close at hand, but not the ability.

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive?

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Colossians 1:21

And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 2:8

Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.