Ephesians 4:18

Modern English Version

having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.

Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Have respect for the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Isaiah 25:7

He will destroy in this mountain the covering which is over all peoples, even the veil that is spread over all nations.

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to seize the heart of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him.

Leviticus 11:16

and the eagle owl, the short-eared and long-eared owls, and the hawk of any kind,

Matthew 13:15

for this people’s heart has grown dull. Their ears have become hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.’

Mark 3:5

When He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch your hand forward.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

John 12:40

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

Acts 17:30

God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent.

Acts 3:17

“Now brothers, 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 a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, lest you be wise in your own estimation, for a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 11:7

What then? Israel has not obtained what it was seeking. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

Romans 2:19

You are confident 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 through its wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

None of the rulers of this age knew it. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Instead, their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the old covenant, the veil which was done away with in Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Galatians 4:8

Previously, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:12

were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Colossians 1:21

And you, who were formerly alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to have compassion on the ignorant and on those who are wayward, for he himself is also subject to weakness.

Hebrews 9:7

But only the high priest went into the second part once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins of the people, committed in ignorance.

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children do not conduct yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.

1 John 2:11

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