Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
Ephesians 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.
And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death forever.
in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are estranged from me through their idols.
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he acted proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was stripped from him.
For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’
He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes, and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.”
While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
“And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe.
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, that same veil is still there, since only in Christ is it set aside.
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.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods.
remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,
He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness;
but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year, and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.
Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.