Ephesians 2:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

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

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart 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 man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither 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? There is not one.

Job 25:4

How then can man be righteous before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?

Psalm 51:5

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Isaiah 53:6

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

Mark 4:19

but the cares of the world, and the delight in riches, and the desire for other things, enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with 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 the nations to walk in their own ways;

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts 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 now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

Romans 13:14

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

Romans 2:14

When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Romans 5:9

Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it.

Romans 9:22

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

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?

2 Corinthians 7:1

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

Galatians 3:22

But the scripture consigned all things to sin, that what was promised to faith in 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 prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:22

Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts,

Colossians 1:21

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

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men 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, hated by men and hating one another;

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former 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, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.

1 John 2:8

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