Ephesians 4:18

Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live, ¹⁸ with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives. ¹⁹ Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.

Hardness of Heart

Life of God

No

Ephesians 2:12

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.

Galatians 4:8

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

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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

Acts 17:30

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

Romans 1:21-23

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.

Romans 11:25

For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of the Gentiles have come in;

Matthew 13:15

For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'

Mark 3:5

Grieved and indignant at the hardening of their hearts, He looked round on them with anger, and said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." He stretched it out, and the arm was completely restored.

John 12:40

"He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their minds, and should turn, and I should heal them."

Acts 26:17-18

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

Romans 1:28

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

Romans 2:19

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

Romans 8:7-8

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.

1 Corinthians 1:21

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.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Nay, their minds were made dull; for to this very day during the reading of the book of the ancient Covenant, the same veil remains unlifted, because it is only in Christ that it is to be abolished.

2 Corinthians 4:4

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.

Colossians 1:21

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

James 4:4

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.

1 John 2:11

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.