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 we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gal 5:16–24This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Eph 4:22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Rom 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
• Eph 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Rom 8:7–8Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Eph 4:17–19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
• Gal 2:15–16We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
• 1 Pet 2:10–11Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• 1 Pet 4:2–3That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Rom 3:22–23Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
• Mark 4:19And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 17:30–31And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Rom 3:9–19What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Jude 1:16–18These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• John 3:1–6There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• John 1:13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
• Dan 9:5–9We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
• Rom 11:30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
• Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Mark 7:21–22For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• 2 Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• Jas 4:1–3From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Rom 1:24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

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