Ephesians 2:2

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You were following the ways of this world and serving the one who rules over the spiritual forces of evil. That’s the spirit who’s still at work in those who aren’t obeying God.

Cross References

Ephesians 6:12

We’re not fighting against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities, and powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly world.

1 John 5:19

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

Ephesians 2:3

At one time we all lived among those things. We followed our wrong desires and thoughts, and we tried to satisfy what they wanted us to do. God was angry with us, as he was with everyone else, because of the kind of people we all were.

John 12:31

Now is the time for the world to be judged and for the prince of this world to be thrown out.

Ephesians 5:6

Don’t listen to anyone’s excuses for living like that, because it’s disobedience, and it makes God very angry.

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s wishes. From the beginning, the devil has been a murderer. He has never obeyed the truth because there’s no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught not to live the way you used to, but to get rid of that old way of life, which was corrupted by its deceptive desires.

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you used to do things like that. But you were washed and made holy and right with God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they can’t see the light of the good news that makes Christ’s glory clear. He is the image of God.

1 John 5:4

because everyone who’s a child of God has won the battle over the world. Our faith has won the battle for us.

1 John 3:10

Here’s how you can tell the difference between God’s children and the devil’s children. Anyone who doesn’t do what is right isn’t God’s child, and anyone who doesn’t love their brother or sister isn’t God’s child either.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, don’t give in to the wrong desires you had when you didn’t know any better.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and he put him in chains for 1,000 years.

1 John 4:4

But you, dear children, are from God, and you have defeated these enemies. That’s because the one who’s in you is greater than the one who’s in the world.

1 Peter 4:3

You’ve spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life and wanted the wrong things. You got drunk and went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which is something the Lord hates.

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were separated from God. In your minds, you were his enemies, because of your wrong ways.

Galatians 1:4

Jesus gave his life for our sins. He did this to set us free from the evil age we’re now living in.

Romans 12:2

Don’t live the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed. Then you’ll be able to recognize what God wants for you and agree that what he wants is right. His plan is good and pleasing and perfect.

James 4:4

You unfaithful people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Anyone who chooses to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

1 Corinthians 5:10

I didn’t mean the people of this world who sin that way. And I wasn’t saying you should stay away from all people who are greedy, or who cheat others, or who worship statues of gods. To do that, you’d have to leave the world entirely!

Acts 5:3

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how has Satan so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit? You’ve kept some of the money you received for your land.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as one of its own. But you don’t belong to the world. I’ve chosen you out of the world. That’s why the world hates you.

John 14:30

I won’t say much more to you, because the prince of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

2 Peter 2:14

They stare at women who are not their wives and want to sleep with them. They never stop sinning. They trap people who aren’t firm in their faith. They’re experts in being greedy. But they’re under a curse.

John 16:11

They’re going to have to face judgment because the devil, the prince of this world, has already been judged.

John 13:27

As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “Do quickly what you’re going to do.”

John 13:2

They were having their evening meal. The devil had already put in the mind of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, the scheme of handing Jesus over to his enemies.

John 8:23

But Jesus continued, “You’re from below; I’m from above. You’re from this world; I’m not from this world.

John 7:7

The people of the world can’t hate you, but they hate me because I’m a witness that what they’re doing is wrong.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people who belong to the kingdom. The weeds are the people who belong to the evil one,

Revelation 13:8

Everyone who lives on the earth will worship the beast if their name hasn’t been written in the book of life that belongs to the Lamb, who was willing to be a sacrifice from the time the world began.

1 John 3:8

The person who does what is sinful belongs to the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. But the Son of God came to destroy the devil’s work.

James 1:7

That kind of person shouldn’t expect to receive anything from the Lord.

2 Timothy 4:10

Demas has deserted me because he’s in love with this world. He has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia and Titus has gone to Dalmatia.

Acts 19:35

Finally the city clerk quieted down the crowd. “People of Ephesus!” he said. “The whole world knows that our city guards the temple of the great Artemis and the statue of her that fell from heaven.

Luke 22:31

“Simon, Simon! Satan has asked to sift all of you disciples like wheat.

Luke 16:8

“Even though the manager had not been honest, the master praised him for being clever. The people of this world are more clever in dealing with their own kind than God’s people are.

Matthew 11:19

But when the Son of Man came, he did eat and drink the way most people do, and you said, ‘He’s always eating and drinking too much. He’s a friend of tax collectors and “sinners.” ’ But wisdom is proved right by its own actions.”

Revelation 16:17

The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple a loud voice came from the throne and said, “It is done!”

Revelation 13:14

The first beast had given the second beast the power to perform these signs, and by these signs, the second beast tricked those who live on the earth. The second beast ordered people to set up a statue to honor the first beast. The first beast was the one who’d been wounded by a sword but had survived.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. That dragon is the old serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.

Matthew 13:22

The seed that fell among the thorns stands for those who hear the message but then have it crowded out by the worries of this life and the false promises of wealth, which keep it from producing fruit.

Mark 4:19

but then the worries of this life, the false promises of wealth, and the desire for other things crowd out the message and keep it from producing fruit.

Ephesians 1:21

There Christ is far above all rulers and authorities, governors and kings, and every name that people call on, in this world and in the world to come.

Ephesians 2:11

Some of you are Gentiles, not Jews, by birth. You’re called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “circumcised.” But they’ve only been circumcised in their bodies by human hands.

Ephesians 2:13

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

Ephesians 4:17

So let me tell you—and I’m speaking for the Lord as I warn you: You must not live the way the Gentiles do any longer. They’re not able to think things through correctly.

Ephesians 5:8

You used to be darkness, but now you’re light in the Lord. Live as children of the light.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is to take care of widows and orphans who are in trouble and not let the world contaminate you.