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 hardened. For until this very day, the same veil remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered, because it is done away with in Christ.

He said, 'I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.'

Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend [with] its mind and turn back, and it may be healed [for] him."

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with [their] eyes and understand with [their] hearts and turn, and I heal them."

Lest

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," [is the one] who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more with glory?

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

to open their eyes [so that they] may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, [so that] they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

to whom God wanted to make known what [is] the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with.

looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

The image

And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped,

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,

who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all [things] by the word of power. [When he] had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Shine

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," [is the one] who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

From Zion, [the] perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

"Arise, shine! For your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.

and we possess [as] more reliable the prophetic word, to which you do well [if you] pay attention to [it] as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining.

General references

"And when a man or a woman {has} an infection on [the] head or in [the] beard,

Bring out [the] people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.

And look! There [was] the glory of the God of Israel like the vision that I saw in the valley.

For this [reason] I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,

(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)