Ephesians 2:2

Weymouth NT

which were once habitual to you while you walked in the ways of this world and obeyed the Prince of the powers of the air, the spirits that are now at work in the hearts of the sons of disobedience–to you God has given Life.

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they exclaim, `See this man! –given to gluttony and tippling, and a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions.«

Matthew 13:22

He who has received the seed among the thorns is the man who hears the Message, but the cares of the present age and the delusions of riches quite stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:38

the field is the world; the good seed–these are the sons of the Kingdom; the darnel, the sons of the Evil one.

Mark 4:19

but worldly cares and the deceitfulness of wealth and the excessive pursuit of other objects come in and stifle the Message, and it becomes unfruitful.

Luke 16:8

»And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.«

Luke 22:31

»Simon, Simon, I tell you that Satan has obtained permission to have all of you to sift as wheat is sifted.

John 12:31

Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this world be driven out.

John 13:2

While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

John 13:27

Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. »Lose no time about it,« said Jesus to him.

John 14:30

In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world–for that reason the world hates you.

John 16:11

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

John 7:7

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

John 8:23

»You,« He continued, »are from below, I am from above: you are of this present world, I am not of this present world.

John 8:44

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth–for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Acts 19:35

At length the Recorder quieted them down. »Men of Ephesus,« he said, »who is there of all mankind that needs to be told that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Zeus?

Acts 5:3

»Ananias,« said Peter, »why has Satan taken possession of your heart, that you should try to deceive the Holy Spirit and dishonestly keep back part of the price paid you for this land?

Romans 12:2

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is–that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

1 Corinthians 5:10

not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave Himself to suffer for our sins in order to rescue us from the present wicked age in accordance with the will of our God and Father.

Ephesians 1:21

high above all other government and authority and power and dominion, and every title of sovereignty used either in this Age or in the Age to come.

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore, do not forget that formerly you were Gentiles as to your bodily condition. You were called the Uncircumcision by those who style themselves the Circumcised–their circumcision being one which the knife has effected.

Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were so far away have been brought near through the death of Christ.

Ephesians 2:3

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

Ephesians 4:17

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Ephesians 4:22

to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming upon the disobedient.

Ephesians 5:8

There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.

Ephesians 6:12

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world–the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

Colossians 1:21

And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds, amidst your evil deeds,

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has deserted me –loving, as he does, the present age– and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

James 1:27

The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.

James 1:7

A person of that sort must not expect to receive anything from the Lord–

James 4:4

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

1 Peter 1:14

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

1 Peter 4:3

For you have given time enough in the past to the doing of the things which the Gentiles delight in– pursuing, as you did, a course of habitual licence, debauchery, hard drinking, noisy revelry, drunkenness and unholy image-worship.

2 Peter 2:14

Their very eyes are full of adultery–being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!

1 John 3:10

By this we can distinguish God's children and the Devil's children: no one who fails to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does not love his brother man.

1 John 3:8

He who is habitually guilty of sin is a child of the Devil, because the Devil has been a sinner from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for the purpose of undoing the work of the Devil.

1 John 4:4

As for you, dear children, you are God's children, and have successfully resisted them; for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:19

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

1 John 5:4

For every child of God overcomes the world; and the victorious principle which has overcome the world is our faith.

Revelation 12:9

The great Dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called `the Devil' and `the Adversary' and leads the whole earth astray, was hurled down: he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Revelation 13:14

And his power of leading astray the inhabitants of the earth is due to the marvels which he has been permitted to work in the presence of the Wild Beast. And he told the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the Wild Beast who had received the sword-stroke and yet had recovered.

Revelation 13:8

And all the inhabitants of the earth will be found to be worshipping him: every one whose name is not recorded in the Book of Life–the Book of the Lamb who has been offered in sacrifice ever since the creation of the world.

Revelation 16:17

Then the seventh angel poured his bowl into the air; and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary from the throne, saying, »Everything is now ready.«

Revelation 20:2

He laid hold of the Dragon –the ancient serpent– who is the Devil and the Adversary, and bound him for a thousand years, and hurled him into the bottomless pit.