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

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

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

They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

"To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

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

Alienated

that you 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 hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Because

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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

General references

the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,

but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.