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NASB | Ephesians 2:3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 2:3 Among these [unbelievers] we all once lived in the passions of our flesh [our behavior governed by the sinful self], indulging the desires of human nature [without the Holy Spirit] and [the impulses] of the [sinful] mind. We were, by nature, children [under the sentence] of [God's] wrath, just like the rest [of mankind]. |
Subject: Is the Potter free to do as He pleases? |
Bible Note: Hi Tim, Indeed, all men come into this world under the curse, and prior to faith in Christ, are objects of wrath. The fact that Paul (an object of wrath himself at one time) and those saints to which he wrote had now recieved mercy, places them apart from those who are called "vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?". We were by "nature" objects of wrath, but by the grace of God, were fore-ordained to recieve mercy. John |