Ephesians 4:18

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Look upon the covenant— for haunts of violence fill the dark places of earth.

Isaiah 25:7

On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the veil spread over all nations.

Ezekiel 14:5

so I may take hold of the house of Israel in their hearts. For they have all become estranged from Me through their idols.’”

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart became haughty and his spirit hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

Leviticus 11:16

the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become dull, their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts. Then they would turn back, and I would heal them.’

Mark 3:5

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

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they might not see with their eyes nor understand with their hearts and turn back, and I would heal them.”

Acts 17:30

Although God overlooked the periods of ignorance, now He commands everyone everywhere to repent.

Acts 3:17

“Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders did.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.

Romans 11:25

For I do not want you, brothers and sisters, to be ignorant of this mystery—lest you be wise in your own eyes—that a partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Romans 11:7

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained; but the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened—

Romans 2:19

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

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that—in God’s wisdom—the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased—through the foolishness of the message proclaimed—to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 2:8

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

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened. For up to this very day the same veil remains unlifted at the reading of the ancient covenant, since in Messiah it is passing away.

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so they might not see the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God.

Galatians 4:8

But at that time, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods at all.

Ephesians 2:1

You were dead in your trespasses and sins.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Colossians 1:21

Once you were alienated from God and hostile in your attitude by wicked deeds.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to empathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he himself also is subject to weakness.

Hebrews 9:7

but into the inner, once a year, the kohen gadol alone— and not without blood which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.

James 4:4

You adulteresses! Don’t you 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.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has made his eyes blind.