Ephesians 4:18

Sin

¹⁶ From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

¹⁹ Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

²⁰ But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
KJV: 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:
WEB: 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.
ASV: 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;
DARBY: being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
BLB: being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance being in them on account of the hardness of their heart,

ÅB: formørket i sin tanke, fremmedgjort for Guds liv ved den vankundighet som er i dem på grunn av deres hjertes forherdelse,
OTB: De er formørket i sin forståelse og fremmedgjort fra Guds liv på grunn av uvitenheten som er i dem, på grunn av hjertets hardhet.
B1930: formørket i sin tanke, fremmedgjort for Guds liv ved den vankundighet som er i dem på grunn av deres hjertes forherdelse,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Matthew 13:15
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
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Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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Romans 1:21–23
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
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1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
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James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
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