Ephesians 2:3 Cross References

Ephesians 2:3

3: All of us used to live that way, following the passions and desires of our evil nature. We were born with an evil nature, and we were under God's anger just like everyone else.

Titus 3:3

  1. Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.

1 Peter 1:14

  1. Obey God because you are his children. Don't slip back into your old ways of doing evil; you didn't know any better then.

Galatians 5:16

  1. So I advise you to live according to your new life in the Holy Spirit. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves.
  2. The old sinful nature loves to do evil, which is just opposite from what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite from what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, and your choices are never free from this conflict.
  3. But when you are directed by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer subject to the law.
  4. When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,
  5. idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,

Ephesians 4:22

  1. throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.

Romans 13:14

  1. But let the Lord Jesus Christ take control of you, and don't think of ways to indulge your evil desires.

1 Peter 2:10

  1. "Once you were not a people; now you are the people of God. Once you received none of God's mercy; now you have received his mercy."
  2. Dear brothers and sisters, you are foreigners and aliens here. So I warn you to keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.

1 Corinthians 6:9

  1. Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
  2. thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers--none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.
  3. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.

Psalms 51:5

  1. For I was born a sinner--yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

1 John 2:16

  1. For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.

Galatians 2:15

  1. You and I are Jews by birth, not 'sinners' like the Gentiles.
  2. And yet we Jewish Christians know that we become right with God, not by doing what the law commands, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be accepted by God because of our faith in Christ--and not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be saved by obeying the law."

Ephesians 2:2

  1. You used to live just like the rest of the world, full of sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.

1 John 1:8

  1. If we say we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and refusing to accept the truth.
  2. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.
  3. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.

Ephesians 4:17

  1. With the Lord's authority let me say this: Live no longer as the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused.
  2. Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
  3. They don't care anymore about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immoral ways. Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed.

1 Peter 4:2

  1. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.
  2. You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

Romans 6:12

  1. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to its lustful desires.

Romans 8:7

  1. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.
  2. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

John 8:44

  1. For you are the children of your father the Devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning and has always hated the truth. There is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Corinthians 7:1

  1. Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete purity because we fear God.

Genesis 6:5

  1. Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.

Romans 3:22

  1. We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.
  2. For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard.

Job 15:14

  1. Can a mortal be pure? Can a human be just?
  2. Why, God doesn't even trust the angels! Even the heavens cannot be absolutely pure in his sight.
  3. How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!

1 Corinthians 4:7

  1. What makes you better than anyone else? What do you have that God hasn't given you? And if all you have is from God, why boast as though you have accomplished something on your own?

Romans 7:18

  1. I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn, I can't make myself do right. I want to, but I can't.

Mark 4:19

  1. but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the cares of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for nice things, so no crop is produced.

Romans 11:30

  1. Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the Jews refused his mercy, God was merciful to you instead.

Romans 9:22

  1. God has every right to exercise his judgment and his power, but he also has the right to be very patient with those who are the objects of his judgment and are fit only for destruction.

Jude 1:16

  1. These people are grumblers and complainers, doing whatever evil they feel like. They are loudmouthed braggarts, and they flatter others to get favors in return.
  2. But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you,
  3. that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable.

Acts 17:30

  1. God overlooked people's former ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone everywhere to turn away from idols and turn to him.
  2. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead."

Romans 5:12

  1. When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
  2. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given,
  3. they all died anyway--even though they did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. What a contrast between Adam and Christ, who was yet to come!
  4. And what a difference between our sin and God's generous gift of forgiveness. For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. But this other man, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God's bountiful gift.
  5. And the result of God's gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man's sin. For Adam's sin led to condemnation, but we have the free gift of being accepted by God, even though we are guilty of many sins.

Romans 3:9

  1. Well then, are we Jews better than others? No, not at all, for we have already shown that all people, whether Jews or Gentiles, are under the power of sin.
  2. As the Scriptures say, "No one is good--not even one.
  3. No one has real understanding; no one is seeking God.
  4. All have turned away from God; all have gone wrong. No one does good, not even one."
  5. "Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their speech is filled with lies.The poison of a deadly snake drips from their lips."

Romans 1:24

  1. So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.

James 4:1

  1. What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Isn't it the whole army of evil desires at war within you?
  2. You want what you don't have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous for what others have, and you can't possess it, so you fight and quarrel to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it.
  3. And even when you do ask, you don't get it because your whole motive is wrong--you want only what will give you pleasure.

2 Peter 2:18

  1. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.

1 Timothy 6:9

  1. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

Job 25:4

  1. How can a mere mortal stand before God and claim to be righteous? Who in all the earth is pure?

2 Peter 2:14

  1. They commit adultery with their eyes, and their lust is never satisfied. They make a game of luring unstable people into sin. They train themselves to be greedy; they are doomed and cursed.

Job 14:4

  1. Who can create purity in one born impure? No one!

Galatians 3:22

  1. But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God's promise is to believe in Jesus Christ.

Daniel 9:5

  1. But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.
  2. We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
  3. "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.
  4. O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
  5. But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

Genesis 8:21

  1. And the LORD was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, "I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though people's thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood.

Mark 7:21

  1. For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
  2. adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Isaiah 53:6

  1. All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.

1 John 2:8

  1. Yet it is also new. This commandment is true in Christ and is true among you, because the darkness is disappearing and the true light is already shining.

John 3:1

  1. After dark one evening, a Jewish religious leader named Nicodemus, a Pharisee,
  2. came to speak with Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are proof enough that God is with you."
  3. Jesus replied, "I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never see the Kingdom of God."
  4. "What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?"
  5. Jesus replied, "The truth is, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

John 1:13

  1. They are reborn! This is not a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan--this rebirth comes from God.

Isaiah 64:6

  1. We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away.
  2. Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.

Acts 14:16

  1. In earlier days he permitted all the nations to go their own ways,

Genesis 5:3

  1. When Adam was 130 years old, his son Seth was born, and Seth was the very image of his father.
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