Ephesians 4:18

with their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.

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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:

In Context

17This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I implore: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

19Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

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Cross References

Psalms 74:20Look to the sleek ones – how full they are: the dark places of earth are the dwellings of violence.

Matthew 13:15for the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; otherwise some day they might perceive with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn – and I might heal them.’

John 12:40‘He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn – And I should heal them.’

Acts 26:17since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32

Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 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: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →

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