Eph 2:3 | NET2full | STEP | among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh , indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind , and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

‏ Ephesians 2:3

3 among whom ^{▼▼sn Among whom. The relative pronoun phrase that begins v. 3 is identical, except for gender, to the one that begins v. 2 (ἐν αἵς [en hais], ἐν οἵς [en hois]). By the structure, the author is building an argument for our hopeless condition: We lived in sin and we lived among sinful people. Our doom looked to be sealed as well in v. 2: Both the external environment (kingdom of the air) and our internal motivation and attitude (the spirit that is now energizing) were under the devil’s thumb (cf. 2 Cor 4:4).} all of us ^{▼▼tn Grk “we all.”} also ^{▼▼tn Or “even.”} formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath ^{▼▼sn Children of wrath is a Semitic idiom which may mean either “people characterized by wrath” or “people destined for wrath.”} even as the rest… ^{▼▼sn Eph 2:1-3. The translation of vv. 1-3 is very literal, even to the point of retaining the awkward syntax of the original. See note on the word dead in 2:1.}