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 attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

Their idols are silver and gold, work of man's hands,

They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

To whom do ye liken Me, and make equal? And compare Me, that we may be like?

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

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

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

Alienated

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Because

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

General references

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,