and those who are (A)in the flesh cannot please God.

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Those who are in the realm of the flesh(A) cannot please God.

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17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

(A)Cursed is the ground because of you;
(B)With [a]hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.

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  1. Genesis 3:17 Or hardship

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)

“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
    through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(E)

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23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So (A)He drove the man out; and at the (B)east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the (C)cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to (D)the tree of life.

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23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(A) to work the ground(B) from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[a] of the Garden of Eden(C) cherubim(D) and a flaming sword(E) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.(F)

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  1. Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front

in which you (A)previously walked according to the [a]course of (B)this world, according to (C)the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in (D)the [b]sons of disobedience. Among them [c]we too all (E)previously lived in (F)the lusts of our flesh, [d]indulging the desires of the flesh and of the [e]mind, and were (G)by nature (H)children of wrath, (I)just as the rest.

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  1. Ephesians 2:2 Lit age
  2. Ephesians 2:2 I.e., people opposed to God
  3. Ephesians 2:3 I.e., Jewish believers
  4. Ephesians 2:3 Lit doing
  5. Ephesians 2:3 Lit thoughts

in which you used to live(A) when you followed the ways of this world(B) and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,(C) the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.(D) All of us also lived among them at one time,(E) gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a](F) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

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  1. 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.

The Christian’s Walk

17 (A)So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, (B)that you are to no longer walk just as the [a]Gentiles also walk, in the (C)futility of their minds,

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  1. Ephesians 4:17 I.e., unbelieving Gentiles

Instructions for Christian Living

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.(B)

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12 You too have done evil, even (A)more than your forefathers; for behold, each one of you is following the (B)stubbornness of his own (C)evil heart, without listening to Me.

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12 But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors.(A) See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts(B) instead of obeying me.

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For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you (A)abstain from sexual immorality; that (B)each of you know how to [a]possess his own [b](C)vessel in sanctification and (D)honor, not in [c](E)lustful passion, like the Gentiles who (F)do not know God;

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 I.e., body; or wife
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust

It is God’s will(A) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(B) that each of you should learn to control your own body[a](C) in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust(D) like the pagans,(E) who do not know God;(F)

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife

For (A)God has not called us for [a](B)impurity, but in sanctification.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 I.e., moral corruption

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.(A)

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