Ephesians 4:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ 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;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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 respect unto the covenant: For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Isaiah 25:7

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Leviticus 11:16

and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind;

Matthew 13:15

For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Mark 3:5

And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto 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 he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them.

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

Acts 3:17

And now, brethren, I wot that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 11:25

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

Romans 11:7

What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

Romans 2:19

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

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the rulers of this world knoweth: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:

2 Corinthians 3:14

but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth unlifted; which veil is done away in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:

Ephesians 2:1

And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:12

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

Colossians 1:21

And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

Hebrews 5:2

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Hebrews 9:7

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:

James 4:4

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

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.