Ephesians 2:3

Tree of Life Version

We too all lived among them in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind. By nature we were children of wrath, just like the others.

Cross References

Genesis 5:3

Adam lived 130 years, then fathered a son in his likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

Genesis 6:5

Then Adonai saw that the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their heart was only evil all the time.

Genesis 8:21

When Adonai smelled the soothing aroma, Adonai said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, even though the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from youth. Nor will I ever again smite all living creatures, as I have done.

Job 14:4

Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!

Job 25:4

How then can a man be righteous with God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

Psalm 51:5

For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.

Isaiah 53:6

We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us turned to his own way. So Adonai has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Mark 4:19

but the worries of the world, the seduction of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

John 1:13

They were born not of a bloodline, nor of human desire, nor of man’s will, but of God.

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks lies he is just being himself—for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 14:16

In past generations He allowed all the nations to go their own ways.

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them over in the evil desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies with one another.

Romans 11:30

For just as you once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Messiah Yeshua, and stop making provision for the flesh—for its cravings.

Romans 2:14

For when Gentiles, who do not have the Torah, do by nature the things of the Torah, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the Torah.

Romans 5:10

For if, while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.

Romans 5:9

How much more then, having now been set right by His blood, shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Romans 7:18

For I know that nothing good dwells in me—that is, in my flesh. For to will is present in me, but to do the good is not.

Romans 9:22

Now what if God, willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath designed for destruction?

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Galatians 3:22

But the Scripture has locked up the whole world under sin, so that the promise based on trust in Messiah Yeshua might be given to those who trust.

Ephesians 2:2

At that time, you walked in the way of this world, in conformity to the ruler of the domain of the air—the ruler of the spirit who is now operating in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 4:22

With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated from God and hostile in your attitude by wicked deeds.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:6

so then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain on the alert and sober-minded.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that never stop sinning, enticing unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed—a cursed brood!

2 Peter 2:18

For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

1 John 2:16

For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

1 John 2:8

Yet I am writing a new commandment for you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.