Ephesians 4:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

The understanding

Alienated

Because

Romans 1:21

Romans 2:19

1 John 2:11

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Deuteronomy 29:4

Bible References

The understanding

Consider the covenant;
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

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.

“To whom would you liken Me
And make Me equal and compare Me,
That we would be alike?

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

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.

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.

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.

However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

not in

lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Alienated

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.

because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,

However at that time, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those which by nature are no gods.

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

not in

lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Because

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.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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.

General references

and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.