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 violence.

Their idols are silver and gold,
made by human hands.

Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.

“Who will you compare Me or make Me equal to?
Who will you measure Me with,
so that we should be like each other?

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

Alienated

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

But in the past, when you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

Adulteresses!

Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

Because

For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

General references

the ostrich,
the short-eared owl, the gull,
any kind of hawk,

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.