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

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Alienated

Because

Romans 1:21

Romans 2:19

1 John 2:11

Bible References

The understanding

Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

I will save you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you to open their eyes,

For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.

But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist.

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

Alienated

At that time you were living apart from Christ, estranged from the Commonwealth of Israel, with no share by birth in the Covenants which are based on the Promises, and you had no hope and no God, in all the world.

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

But at one time, you Gentiles, having no knowledge of God, were slaves to gods which in reality do not exist.

And you, estranged as you once were and even hostile in your minds, amidst your evil deeds,

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

Because

For when they had come to know God, they did not give Him glory as God nor render Him thanks, but they became absorbed in useless discussions, and their senseless minds were darkened.

and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

But he who hates his brother man is in darkness and is walking in darkness; and he does not know where he is going--because the darkness has blinded his eyes.