Ephesians 4:18

Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ 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 hearts; ¹⁹ who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Hardness of Heart

Life of God

No

Ephesians 2:12

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Galatians 4:8

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

Acts 17:30

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Romans 1:21-23

Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Romans 11:25

For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Psalm 74:20

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

Psalm 115:4-8

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 44:18-20

They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

Isaiah 46:5-8

"To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Matthew 13:15

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

Mark 3:5

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

John 12:40

"He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."

Acts 26:17-18

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

Romans 1:28

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 2:19

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Romans 8:7-8

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

2 Corinthians 3:14

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Colossians 1:21

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 2:11

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.