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

Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil.

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

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

To whom will you compare Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be alike?

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

delivering you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

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

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

Alienated

and that at that time you 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 carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

But then, indeed, not knowing God, you served as slaves to those not by nature being gods.

And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

(not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God),

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Because

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

and persuading yourselves to be a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness;

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

General references

and the ostrich, and the great owl, and the gull, and small hawks, according to its kind,

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