18 They are darkened in their understanding(A) and separated from the life of God(B) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.(C)

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18 being (A)darkened in their understanding, [a](B)excluded from the life of God because of the (C)ignorance that is in them, because of the (D)hardness of their heart;

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:18 Or alienated

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

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The Old Way Has to Go

17-19 And so I insist—and God backs me up on this—that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.

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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:

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