Ephesians 4:18
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
Galatians 4:8
However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.
Acts 17:30
Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,
Romans 1:21-23
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
Romans 11:25
For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.
Psalm 74:20
Pay attention to your covenant, for the dark regions of the earth are full of violence.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, crafted by human hands.
Isaiah 44:18-20
They don't realize; they don't understand, because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds, too, so they cannot understand.
Isaiah 46:5-8
"To whom will you compare me, count me equal, or liken me, so that I may be compared?
Daniel 5:20
But when he became arrogant and his spirit hardened, he was removed from his royal throne and his glory was taken away from him.
Matthew 13:15
for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'
Mark 3:5
Jesus looked around at them in anger, deeply hurt because of their hard hearts. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held it out, and his hand was restored to health.
John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."
Acts 26:17-18
I'll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I'm sending you.
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.
Romans 2:19
and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,
Romans 8:7-8
That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.
2 Corinthians 3:14
However, their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil is still there when they read the old covenant. Only in union with the Messiah is that veil removed.
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
Colossians 1:21
You who were once alienated with a hostile attitude, doing evil,
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
1 John 2:11
But the person who hates his brother is in the darkness and lives in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.