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

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them .

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

Alienated

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

Because

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

General references

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind,

but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.