Ephesians 4:18

English Standard Version 2016

They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, 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, and I would heal them.’

Ephesians 2:12

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

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

James 4:4

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

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

Colossians 1:21

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

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Galatians 4:8

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

Romans 11:25

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

1 Corinthians 1:21

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Romans 2:19

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

Mark 3:5

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

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

Psalm 74:20

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

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.

Isaiah 25:7

And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.

Acts 3:17

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

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,

1 Corinthians 2:8

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

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Hebrews 5:2

He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Hebrews 9:7

but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

Leviticus 11:16

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

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.