Ephesians 2:3
1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- KJV
- Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- WEB
- We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
- ASV
- among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
- DARBY
- among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
- BLB
- among whom we all also once conducted ourselves in the desires of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of [its] thoughts; and we were by nature children of wrath even as the rest.
- ÅB
- blant hvilke også vi alle før i tiden vandret i vårt kjøds lyster, idet vi gjorde kjødets og tankenes vilje, og vi var av naturen vredens barn slik som de andre.
- OTB
- Blant dem levde vi alle en gang i vårt kjøds lyster, idet vi gjorde kjødets og tankenes vilje, og var av naturen vredens barn, liksom de andre.
- B1930
- blandt hvilke også vi alle fordum vandret i vårt kjøds lyster, idet vi gjorde kjødets og tankenes vilje, og vi var av naturen vredens barn likesom de andre.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Titus 3:3
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Read in contextGalatians 5:16–24
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Read in contextEphesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Read in context1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
Read in contextRomans 13:14
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
Read in contextRomans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Read in context1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
Read in contextPsalms 51:5
Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
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