Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived in fleshly desires and were by nature objects of God's wrath. It includes everyone, Jew and Gentile, in sin's guilt and condemnation.

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• Titus 3:3For 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.
• Gal 5:16–24So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Rom 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Do 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,
• 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
• Eph 2:2in 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.
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• Eph 4:17–19So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Gal 2:15–16We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
• 1 Pet 2:10–11Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Rom 3:22–23And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Mark 4:19but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
• 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 17:30–31Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
• Rom 7:18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Rom 3:9–19What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
• Isa 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
• Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
• Jude 1:16–18These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• John 3:1–6Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.
• Gen 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
• John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.
• Dan 9:5–9we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances.
• Rom 11:30Just as you who formerly disobeyed God have now received mercy through their disobedience,
• Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Mark 7:21–22For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
• Rom 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
• 2 Pet 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
• Jas 4:1–3What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Rom 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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