Ephesians 2:3

2:3 among whom ¹  all of us ²  also ³  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 ⁴  even as the rest… ⁵ 

Ephesians 6:9

6:9 Masters, ⁶  treat your slaves ⁷  the same way, ⁸  giving up the use of threats, ⁹  because you know that both you and they have the same master in heaven, ¹⁰  and there is no favoritism with him.

[2:3]  ¹ 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 Jais], ἐν οἵς [en Jois]). 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).

[2:3]  ² tn Grk “we all.”

[2:3]  ³ tn Or “even.”

[2:3]  ⁴ sn Children of wrath is a Semitic idiom which may mean either “people characterized by wrath” or “people destined for wrath.”

[2:3]  ⁵ 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.

[6:9]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[6:9]  ⁷ tn Though the Greek text only has αὐτούς (autous, “them”), the antecedent is the slaves of the masters. Therefore, it was translated this way to make it explicit in English.

[6:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “do the same things to them.”

[6:9]  ⁹ tn Grk “giving up the threat.”

[6:9]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “because of both they and you, the Lord is, in heaven…”