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 to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men, -

They have not taken note, neither can they perceive, - He hath besmeared - past seeing - their eyes, Past understanding, their hearts;

To whom can ye liken me or make me equal? Or compare me, and we be like?

The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent,

Rescuing thee from among the people, and from among the nations, unto whom, I, am sending thee -

Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,

For, seeing that, in the wisdom of God, the world, through its wisdom, did not get to knew God, God was well-pleased - through the foolishness of the thing proclaimed, to save them that believe.

In whom, the god of this age, hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, to the end they may not discern the radiance e of the glad-message of the glory of the Christ - who is the image of God.

But, at that time - not knowing God, ye were in servitude unto them who, by nature, are not Gods;

Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, -

Alienated

That ye were, in that season, separate from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and godless in the world;

Inasmuch as, what is preferred by the flesh, is hostile towards God, for, unto the law of God, it doth not submit itself, neither in fact can it. -

But, at that time - not knowing God, ye were in servitude unto them who, by nature, are not Gods;

And, you, who at one time were estranged and enemies in your mind in your wicked works, yet, now, hath he fully reconciled,

Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, -

Adulteresses! Know ye not that, the friendship of the world, is, enmity to God? Whosoever, therefore, is minded to be, a friend, of the world, an enemy of God, doth constitute himself.

Because

Inasmuch as, having come to know God, not, as God, did they glorify him, or give him thanks, but were made fruitless in their reasonings, and darkened was their undiscerning heart,

Art persuaded, moreover, that, thou thyself, art - a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

Whereas, he that hateth his brother, in the darkness, dwelleth, and in the darkness, walketh; and knoweth not whither he is drifting, because the, darkness, hath blinded his eyes.

General references

and the female ostrich, and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, - and the hawk after its kind;

yet hath Yahweh not given onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see or ears to hear, - until this day.