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 were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Gal 5:16–24But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Eph 4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
• 1 Pet 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
• Ps 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
• Rom 6:12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
• Eph 2:2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Eph 4:17–19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• Gal 2:15–16“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,
• 1 Pet 2:10–11who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• 1 Pet 4:2–3that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for 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 through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
• Mark 4:19and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
• 1 Cor 4:7For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Acts 17:30–31The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Rom 7:18For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Rom 3:9–19What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has 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 and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
• John 3:1–6Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• John 1:13who 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 dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• Rom 11:30For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,
• Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
• Mark 7:21–22For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Jas 4:1–3Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Rom 1:24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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