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 did not know nor understand; for he has anointed their eyes that they not see and their hearts that they not understand.

To whom will ye liken me and make me equal and compare me that we may be alike?

For the times of this ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men everywhere to repent

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

because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

For in the wisdom of God, since the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe.

In whom the god of this age has blinded the understanding of those who do not believe, that the light of the gospel of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine in them.

However then, when ye did not know God, ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods.

not with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God,

Alienated

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

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

However then, when ye did not know God, ye did service unto those who by nature are not gods.

And you, that were in another time alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he has reconciled you

not with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God,

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

Because

because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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

But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

General references

the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, and the hawk according to his species;

Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear until today.