Ephesians 4:18

Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This therefore I say, and charge you in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.

Hardness of Heart

Life of God

No

Ephesians 2:12

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

Galatians 4:8

But at that time, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye were in slavery to those who in their nature are not gods;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles who know not God;

Acts 17:30

The times indeed of ignorance God overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent;

Romans 1:21-23

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

Romans 11:25

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

Matthew 13:15

For this peoples heart hath become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."

Mark 3:5

And looking round on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.

John 12:40

"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."

Acts 26:17-18

delivering thee from the people, and from the gentiles, to whom I send thee,

Romans 1:28

And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are shameful;

Romans 2:19

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

Romans 8:7-8

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it doth not submit itself to the Law of God, neither indeed can it.

1 Corinthians 1:21

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

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their understandings were blinded; for until this day, when the old covenant is read, the same veil remaineth, since it is not unveiled to them that it is done away in Christ;

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the God of this world blinded the understandings of the unbelieving, so that they cannot behold the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Colossians 1:21

And you, that were once alienated, and enemies in your mind in wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooseth to be a friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God.

1 John 2:11

but he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.