Ephesians 4:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Isaiah 25:7

And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.

Ezekiel 14:5

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

Leviticus 11:16

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Mark 3:5

And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.

John 12:40

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Acts 17:30

Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

Acts 3:17

And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.

Romans 1:28

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

Romans 11:25

For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

Romans 11:7

What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

Romans 2:19

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.

1 Corinthians 2:8

Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

Galatians 4:8

But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

Ephesians 2:1

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

Ephesians 2:12

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

Hebrews 9:7

But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

James 4:4

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

1 John 2:11

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.