2 Corinthians 4:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Blinded

Lest

The image

Hebrews 1:3

Shine

1 John 2:8

General references

Bible References

Blinded

But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.

And the LORD said unto him, By what means? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Lest

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

How shall not the ministry of the Spirit be more glorious?

Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

The image

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And he that sees me sees him that sent me.

Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long a time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?

If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God:

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Shine

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; to which you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

General references

If a man or woman has a disease upon the head or the beard;

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.