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among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
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No One Is Exempt
Paul deliberately uses 'we all' to include himself and his fellow Jews, who were religiously devout. Commentators stress this to show that before Christ, everyone, regardless of heritage or outward piety, was in the same state. There is no natural difference between the 'brightest saint' and the 'blackest sinner'; all are equally in need of God's grace.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
We all had our conversion. (See Barnes on 2 Corinthians 1:12).
Compare to 1 Peter 4:3.
In the lu…
We also all (κα ημεις παντες). We Jews.
Once lived (ανεστραφημεν ποτε). Second aorist passive indicative o…
19th Century
Anglican
Among whom also we all . . .—Up to this point, Saint Paul had addressed himself especially to the Ephesians as Gentiles: …
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Baptist
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and w…
“Among them” refers to the “disobedient” rather than to “transgressions and sins” (v.1). So far Paul has been depicting the former lifestyle of Gen…
16th Century
Protestant
Among whom also we all had our conversation. Lest it be supposed that what he had now said was a slanderous reproach against the previous …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past , &c.] What the apostle says of the Gentile Ephesians befo…
Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it evokes an awf…
