So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

1 Peter 4:3

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles,

having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

Blindness » Example of spiritual

Isaiah 59:10

We grope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We stumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

Verse Concepts

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Verse Concepts

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Verse Concepts

Matthew 23:19

You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?

Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

2 Peter 1:9

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

Verse Concepts

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Verse Concepts

Blindness » Those that walk in darkness

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Verse Concepts

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. "But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

John 12:35-36

So Jesus said to them, "For a little while longer the Light is among you Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. "While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light " These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

Ephesians 4:17-18

1 John 1:5-6

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

Blindness » Who is blind

Ephesians 4:17-18

2 Corinthians 3:13-15

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away. But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart;

2 Peter 1:1-9

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. read more.
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

spiritual Blindness » Leads to all evil

Ephesians 4:17-19

Character » Of the wicked » Alienated from God

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Colossians 1:21

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

Verse Concepts

Character » Of the wicked » Blinded

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Character of the wicked » Blinded

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Character of the wicked » Alienated from God

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Colossians 1:21

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

Verse Concepts

Conscience » Dead

Ephesians 4:17-19

Jeremiah 6:15

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to blush.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

Verse Concepts

1 Timothy 4:2

by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 16:25

There is a way which seems right to a man,

But its end is the way of death.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 30:20

This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth,
And says, “I have done no wrong.”

Verse Concepts

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion

And to those who feel secure in the mountain of Samaria,
The distinguished men of the foremost of nations,
To whom the house of Israel comes.

Verse Concepts

Amos 6:3-6

Do you put off the day of calamity, And would you bring near the seat of violence? Those who recline on beds of ivory And sprawl on their couches, And eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall, Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have composed songs for themselves, read more.
Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

John 16:2-3

"They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. "These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

Romans 1:21-25

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. read more.
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Darkness » Those that walk in darkness

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Verse Concepts

John 11:9-10

John 12:35-36

Ephesians 4:17-18

1 John 1:5-6

death » Spiritual

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.

Verse Concepts

John 11:26

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

1 Peter 2:24

and He Himself

bore our sins in His body on the

cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

Verse Concepts

1 John 5:12

He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

Verse Concepts

John 6:53

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Verse Concepts

Luke 1:79

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Verse Concepts

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John 5:24-26

"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

John 6:50-51

"This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."

Romans 5:15

But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Verse Concepts

Romans 7:11

for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Verse Concepts

Romans 8:5-6

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

Romans 8:12-13

So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Ephesians 2:5-6

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 5:14

For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”

Verse Concepts

Colossians 2:13

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

Spiritual death » Spiritual ignorance is

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in darkness

Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.

Luke 1:79

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,

To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Verse Concepts

Matthew 4:16

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”

Verse Concepts

Spiritual death » Alienation from God is

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Estrangement » From God » General references to

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to lay hold of

the hearts of the house of Israel who are

estranged from Me through all their idols.”’

Verse Concepts

Ezekiel 44:10

But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

Verse Concepts

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

Verse Concepts

Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Estranged from God

Genesis 3:8

They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Psalm 58:3

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Colossians 1:21

And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

Verse Concepts

Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Blinded in heart

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Gentiles » Unclassified sciptures relating to

Acts 17:4

And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:17-19

Matthew 6:31-32

"Do not worry then, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear for clothing?' "For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ,

excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

1 Corinthians 10:20

No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 10:2-3

Thus says the LORD, "Do not learn the way of the nations, And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them; For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Matthew 6:7-8

"And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. "So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

Acts 14:16

In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;

Verse Concepts

Acts 17:16-17

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols. So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

Acts 17:22-27

So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. "For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD ' Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. "The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; read more.
nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

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Romans 1:18-32

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. read more.
For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Romans 2:1-15

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? read more.
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

Verse Concepts

Galatians 2:15

“We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 5:12

for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

Verse Concepts

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you know how to possess his own

vessel in sanctification and honor,

Verse Concepts

1 Peter 4:3-4

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries. In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

Heart » Whose heart becomes darkened

Ephesians 4:17-18

Romans 1:21-22

Heart » The unregenerate » Blind

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Romans 1:21

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

character of the unrenewed Heart » Blind

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

the Heathen » Described as » Ignorant

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

Verse Concepts

Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to

Isaiah 1:3

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

1 Peter 1:14

obedient children, do not

be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Verse Concepts

Amos 3:10

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

Verse Concepts

Micah 4:12

“But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,
And they do not understand His purpose;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Verse Concepts

Isaiah 59:8

They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,

Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.

Verse Concepts

Romans 10:3

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Verse Concepts

Ignorance » Of self » It alienates from God

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Ignorance of God » Leads to » Alienation from God

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Spiritual life » The wicked alienated from

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Man » Possessed of » Understanding

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

ignorance of Self » It alienates from God

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

Spiritual » Blindness » Examples of

Isaiah 59:10

We grope along the wall like blind men,
We grope like those who have no eyes;
We stumble at midday as in the twilight,
Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

Verse Concepts

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Verse Concepts

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Verse Concepts

Matthew 23:19

You blind men, which is more important, the offering, or the altar that sanctifies the offering?

Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

2 Peter 1:9

For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

Verse Concepts

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Verse Concepts

Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to

Isaiah 1:3

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

Verse Concepts

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding,

excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

1 Peter 1:14

obedient children, do not

be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Verse Concepts

Amos 3:10

But they do not know how to do what is right,” declares the Lord, “these who hoard up violence and devastation in their citadels.”

Verse Concepts

Micah 4:12

“But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,
And they do not understand His purpose;
For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Verse Concepts

Isaiah 59:8

They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks;
They have made their paths crooked,

Whoever treads on them does not know peace.

Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “They are only the poor,
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God.

Verse Concepts

Romans 10:3

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Verse Concepts

Understanding » Who is void of understanding

Ephesians 4:17-19

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who pursues worthless things lacks sense.

Verse Concepts

Proverbs 6:32

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense;
He who would destroy himself does it.

Verse Concepts

Romans 1:21-23

Isaiah 44:9-19

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame. Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit? Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame. read more.
The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary. Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, so that it may sit in a house. Surely he cuts cedars for himself, and takes a cypress or an oak and raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow. Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it. Half of it he burns in the fire; over this half he eats meat as he roasts a roast and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire." But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, "Deliver me, for you are my god." They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals I roast meat and eat it Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice,
But those who seek the Lord

understand all things.

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Daniel 12:10

Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

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