Ephesians 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].

American Standard Version (1901)

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

Common English Bible

and they are in the dark in their reasoning. They are disconnected from God’s life because of their ignorance and their closed hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

Ephesians 4:18 Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

Isaiah 25:7

And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the covering that is spread over all nations;

Ezekiel 14:5

in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are estranged from me through their idols.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

Mark 3:5

He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.”

Acts 17:30

While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Acts 3:17

“And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Romans 11:25

I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,

Romans 2:19

and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of the proclamation, to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead through the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:12

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

Colossians 1:21

And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God;

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness,

Hebrews 9:7

but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.