Ephesians 2:3

Ephesians 1 Ephesians 3

Ephesians 2:3 New International Version (NIV)

³All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

Footnotes:

Ephesians 2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.

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Ephesians 2:11-13

Ephesians 1 Ephesians 3

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Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ

¹¹Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— ¹²remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. ¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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Romans 11:30

Romans 10 Romans 12

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³⁰Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,

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1 Corinthians 6:11

1 Corinthians 5 1 Corinthians 7

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¹¹And that is what some of you were. 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.

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1 Corinthians 5:8

1 Corinthians 4 1 Corinthians 6

1 Corinthians 5:8 New International Version (NIV)

⁸Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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Colossians 3:7

Colossians 2 Colossians 4

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⁷You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

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Titus 3:3

Titus 2 Philemon 1

Titus 3:3 New International Version (NIV)

³At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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1 Peter 4:3

1 Peter 3 1 Peter 5

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³For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.