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 the same vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.

And the LORD said to him, With what? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets? And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

Make the heart of this people fat, 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 convert, and be healed.

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

Lest

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

How shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious?

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

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to 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 seeth me, seeth him that sent me:

Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? he that hath seen me, hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

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

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

Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature:

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 made purification of 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, hath shined into 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 hath shined.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

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

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

General references

If a man or woman shall have a plague 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, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

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

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

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