Ephesians 4:18 Cross References

Ephesians 4:18

18: Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Ephesians 2:12

  1. In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God's people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Romans 1:21

  1. Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
  2. Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.
  3. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes.

John 12:40

  1. "The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts--so their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them."

Matthew 13:15

  1. For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes--so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.'

1 Thessalonians 4:5

  1. not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

2 Corinthians 4:4

  1. Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News that is shining upon them. They don't understand the message we preach about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

1 John 2:11

  1. Anyone who hates a Christian brother or sister is living and walking in darkness. Such a person is lost, having been blinded by the darkness.

Colossians 1:21

  1. This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions,

James 4:4

  1. You adulterers! Don't you realize that friendship with this world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again, that if your aim is to enjoy this world, you can't be a friend of God.

Galatians 4:8

  1. Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.

Romans 1:28

  1. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

Acts 17:30

  1. God overlooked people's former ignorance about these things, but now he commands everyone everywhere to turn away from idols and turn to him.

2 Corinthians 3:14

  1. But the people's minds were hardened, and even to this day whenever the old covenant is being read, a veil covers their minds so they cannot understand the truth. And this veil can be removed only by believing in Christ.

Romans 11:25

  1. I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud and start bragging. Some of the Jews have hard hearts, but this will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to Christ.

Romans 8:7

  1. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.
  2. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

Isaiah 46:5

  1. "To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?
  2. Some people pour out their silver and gold and hire a craftsman to make a god from it. Then they bow down and worship it!
  3. They carry it around on their shoulders, and when they set it down, it stays there. It cannot even move! And when someone prays to it, there is no answer. It has no power to get anyone out of trouble.
  4. "Do not forget this, you guilty ones.

Daniel 5:20

  1. But when his heart and mind were hardened with pride, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

1 Corinthians 1:21

  1. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.

Psalms 74:20

  1. Remember your covenant promises, for the land is full of darkness and violence!

Romans 2:19

  1. You are convinced that you are a guide for the blind and a beacon light for people who are lost in darkness without God.

Mark 3:5

  1. He looked around at them angrily, because he was deeply disturbed by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, "Reach out your hand." The man reached out his hand, and it became normal again!

Psalms 115:4

  1. Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.
  2. They cannot talk, though they have mouths, or see, though they have eyes!
  3. They cannot hear with their ears, or smell with their noses,
  4. or feel with their hands, or walk with their feet, or utter sounds with their throats!
  5. And those who make them are just like them, as are all who trust in them.

Acts 26:17

  1. And I will protect you from both your own people and the Gentiles. Yes, I am going to send you to the Gentiles,
  2. to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.'

Isaiah 44:18

  1. Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
  2. The person who made the idol never stops to reflect, "Why, it's just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a chunk of wood?"
  3. The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"
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