Ephesians 2:2

The Text-Critical English New Testament

in which you once walked when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the realm of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her children.”

Matthew 13:22

The seed sown among the thorns is he who hears the word, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world, and the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. The tares are the sons of the evil one,

Mark 4:19

but the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desire for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Luke 16:8

So the master commended the unrighteous steward because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the sons of light.

Luke 22:31

Then the Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to have you, so that he might sift you like wheat.

John 12:31

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

John 13:2

By the time supper ended, the devil had put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Jesus.

John 13:27

After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What yoʋ are about to do, do quickly.”

John 14:30

I will not talk with you much longer, for the ruler of the world is coming, but he has no power over me.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.

John 16:11

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

John 7:7

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

John 8:23

He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 8:44

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out 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 speaks lies, he speaks from his own character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 19:35

When the city clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there that does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis and of the image that fell down from Zeus?

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled yoʋr heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the proceeds of the plot of land?

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may determine what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:10

Yet I certainly did not mean the fornicators of this world or the greedy or swindlers or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of the world.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers like them, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not dawn upon them.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Ephesians 1:21

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

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “the uncircumcision” by those who call themselves “the circumcision,” which is made in the flesh by hands—

Ephesians 2:13

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

Ephesians 2:3

Among them we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of our flesh and our impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore, I solemnly declare in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

Ephesians 4:22

to put off your old self, which belongs to your former way of life and is being corrupted by its deceitful desires,

Ephesians 5:6

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

Ephesians 5:8

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

Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Colossians 1:21

At one time you were alienated from God and hostile in your minds because of your evil works. But now he has reconciled you

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, who is in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God our Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 1:7

That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.

James 4:4

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, do not conform yourselves to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

1 Peter 4:3

For we have spent enough of our life doing what the Gentiles like to do, walking in sensual indulgences, evil desires, excesses of wine, revelries, drinking bouts, and illicit idolatries.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unstable souls. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:8

Whoever practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and you have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 5:4

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14

By the signs he was permitted to do in the presence of the first beast, he deceived my own people who dwell on the earth, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image of the first beast, who had the wound from the sword but still lived.

Revelation 13:8

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.

Revelation 16:17

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

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, and he bound him for a thousand years.