He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, ‘God’s fire fell from heaven. It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’
Ephesians 2:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In which at one time you walked [habitually]. You were following the course and fashion of this world [were under the sway of the tendency of this present age], following the prince of the power of the air. [You were obedient to and under the control of] the [demon] spirit that still constantly works in the sons of disobedience [the careless, the rebellious, and the unbelieving, who go against the purposes of God]. American Standard Version (1901) wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; Common English Bible You used to live like people of this world. You followed the rule of a destructive spiritual power. This is the spirit of disobedience to God’s will that is now at work in persons whose lives are characterized by disobedience. Catholic Public Domain Version in which you walked in times past, according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of this sky, the spirit who now works in the sons of distrust. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief: |
He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported, ‘God’s fire fell from heaven. It burned the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’
Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you! ’
The Lord asked Satan, ‘Where have you come from? ’ ‘From roaming through the earth,’ Satan answered him, ‘and walking around on it.’
If my step has turned from the way, my heart has followed my eyes, or impurity has stained my hands,
Woe to the rebellious children! This is the Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan, but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.
Who are you mocking? Who are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue at? Isn’t it you, you rebellious children, you offspring of liars,
For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,
Israel, you have sinned since the days of Gibeah; they have taken their stand there. Will not war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! ” Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’
Now the one sown among the thorns #– #this is one who hears the word, but the worries of this age and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
the field is the world; and the good seed #– #these are the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one,
but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness , of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
‘The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age are more shrewd than the children of light in dealing with their own people.
Now is the judgement of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Now when it was time for supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray him.
After Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan entered him. So Jesus told him, ‘What you’re doing, do quickly.’
I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me. ,
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 it, the world hates you.
and about judgement, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.
‘You are from below,’ he told them, ‘I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
You are of 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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
When the town clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, ‘People of Ephesus! What person is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
‘Ananias,’ Peter asked, ‘why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds of the land?
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, , who is the image of God.
who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every title given, , not only in this age but also in the one to come.
So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh #– #called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those called ‘the circumcised’, which is done in the flesh by human hands.
But now, in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.
to take off , your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light #– #
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens.
Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds, as expressed in your evil actions.
because Demas has deserted me, since he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? So whoever wants to be the friend of the world becomes the enemy of God.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
They have eyes full of adultery that never stop looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.
The one who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s works.
You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.
because everyone who has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
So the great dragon was thrown out #– #the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.
It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered. ,
Then the seventh poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple , from the throne, saying, ‘It is done! ’
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, , and bound him for a thousand years.