Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.
New American Standard Bible
being
King James Version
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Holman Bible
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
International Standard Version
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
A Conservative Version
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.
American Standard Version
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
Amplified
for their [moral] understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; [they are] alienated and self-banished from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the [willful] ignorance and spiritual blindness that is [deep-seated] within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.
An Understandable Version
Their understanding [of spiritual things] is darkened and excluded from the [spiritual] life that God gives, because of the ignorance in their minds and the stubbornness in their hearts.
Anderson New Testament
darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
Bible in Basic English
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
Common New Testament
they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;
Daniel Mace New Testament
which are overspread with darkness, and averse to a religious life, thro' their innate ignorance and obduracy:
Darby Translation
being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
Godbey New Testament
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;
Goodspeed New Testament
They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,
John Wesley New Testament
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, by the ignorance that is in them, through the hardness of their hearts:
Julia Smith Translation
Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;
King James 2000
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Lexham Expanded Bible
being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
Modern King James verseion
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
Moffatt New Testament
their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.
Montgomery New Testament
having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
NET Bible
They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
New Heart English Bible
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
Noyes New Testament
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;
Sawyer New Testament
with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,
The Emphasized Bible
Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:
Webster
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Weymouth New Testament
with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.
Williams New Testament
with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;
World English Bible
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
Worrell New Testament
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their hearts;
Worsley New Testament
in the vanity of their mind, darkened in their understanding, and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, by reason of the hardness of their heart:
Youngs Literal Translation
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,
Themes
Adultery » Instances of » Heathen
Blindness » Example of spiritual
Blindness » Those that walk in darkness
spiritual Blindness » Leads to all evil
Character » Of the wicked » Alienated from God
Character » Of the wicked » Blinded
Character of the wicked » Blinded
Character of the wicked » Alienated from God
Darkness » Those that walk in darkness
Spiritual death » Spiritual ignorance is
Spiritual death » Alienation from God is
Estrangement » From God » General references to
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Estranged from God
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Blinded in heart
Gentiles » Unclassified sciptures relating to
Heart » Whose heart becomes darkened
Heart » The unregenerate » Blind
character of the unrenewed Heart » Blind
the Heathen » Described as » Ignorant
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
Ignorance » Of self » It alienates from God
Ignorance of God » Leads to » Alienation from God
Spiritual life » The wicked alienated from
Man » Possessed of » Understanding
ignorance of Self » It alienates from God
Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
Topics
Reconciliation, Of The World To God
Salvation, Necessity And Basis Of
Unbelief, Nature And Effects Of
Interlinear
Dia
Dia
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 4:18
Prayers for Ephesians 4:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For New Behavior
17 This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live, 18 With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts. 19 Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 2:12
Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.
Galatians 4:8
Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;
Acts 17:30
True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,
Romans 1:21-23
Because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.
Romans 11:25
Brothers, for fear that you should think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only till the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
Matthew 13:15
For the mind of this nation has grown dense, And their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes also have they closed; Lest some day they should perceive with their eyes, And with their ears they should hear, And in their mind they should understand, and should turn--And I should heal them.'
Mark 3:5
As they remained silent, Jesus looked round at them in anger, grieving at the hardness of their hearts, and said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man stretched it out; and his hand had become sound.
John 12:40
'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'
Acts 26:17-18
Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Romans 1:28
Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
Romans 2:19
Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent,
Romans 8:7-8
Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For since the world, in God's wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the 'folly' of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were slow to learn. Indeed, to this very day, at the public reading of the Old Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted; only for those who are in union with Christ does it pass away.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.
Colossians 1:21
And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness--
James 4:4
Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
1 John 2:11
while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.