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Ephesians 2:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. "

Ephesians 2:3

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1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

2 in 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.

3 We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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Ephesians 2:1

"You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,"

Ephesians 2:2

"in 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."

Ephesians 2:4

"But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,"

Ephesians 2:5

"even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—"

Ephesians 2:6

"and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,"

Ephesians 2:7

"that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;"

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