Ephesians 4:18
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18 They (A)are darkened in their understanding, (B)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (C)their hardness of heart.
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Ephesians 2:12
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12 remember (A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (C)the covenants of promise, (D)having no hope and without God in the world.
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Romans 1:21-23
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21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they (A)became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 (B)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (C)exchanged the glory of (D)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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Matthew 13:15
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15 For this people's heart has grown dull,
and with their ears (A)they can barely hear,
and (B)their eyes they have closed,
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and (C)understand with their heart
and (D)turn, and I would heal them.’
1 Thessalonians 4:5
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5 not in (A)the passion of lust (B)like the Gentiles (C)who do not know God;
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John 12:40
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40 (A)“He has blinded their eyes
and (B)hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”
Colossians 1:21
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21 (A)And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, (B)doing evil deeds,
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1 John 2:11
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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and (A)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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James 4:4
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4 (A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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- James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!
Galatians 4:8
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Paul's Concern for the Galatians
8 Formerly, when you (A)did not know God, you (B)were enslaved to those that by nature (C)are not gods.
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2 Corinthians 3:14
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14 But (A)their minds were (B)hardened. For to this day, (C)when they read (D)the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
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Romans 11:25
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The Mystery of Israel's Salvation
25 (A)Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:[a] (B)a partial hardening has come upon Israel, (C)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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- Romans 11:25 Or brothers and sisters
Romans 8:7-8
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7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is (A)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; (B)indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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Romans 1:28
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28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, (A)God gave them up to (B)a debased mind to do (C)what ought not to be done.
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Acts 17:30
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30 (A)The times of ignorance (B)God overlooked, but (C)now he (D)commands all people everywhere to repent,
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1 Corinthians 1:21
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21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach[a] to save those who believe.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:21 Or the folly of preaching
Romans 2:19
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19 and if you are sure that you yourself are (A)a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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Mark 3:5
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5 And he (A)looked around at them with anger, grieved at (B)their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” (C)He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
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Daniel 5:20
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20 But (A)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, (B)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.
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Isaiah 46:5-8
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5 (A)“To whom will you liken me and make me equal,
and compare me, that we may be alike?
6 (B)Those who lavish gold from the purse,
and weigh out silver in the scales,
hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
(C)then they fall down and worship!
7 (D)They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
they set it in its place, and it stands there;
(E)it cannot move from its place.
If one cries to it, it does not answer
or save him from his trouble.
8 “Remember this and stand firm,
recall it to mind, (F)you transgressors,
Psalm 74:20
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20 Have regard for (A)the covenant,
for (B)the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Acts 26:17-18
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17 (A)delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—(B)to whom I (C)am sending you 18 (D)to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from (E)the power of Satan to God, that they may receive (F)forgiveness of sins and (G)a place among those who are sanctified (H)by faith in me.’
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Psalm 115:4-8
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4 (A)Their idols are silver and gold,
(B)the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, (C)but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
and they do not make a sound in their throat.
8 (D)Those who make them become like them;
so do all who trust in them.
Isaiah 44:18-20
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18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an (A)abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 (B)He feeds on (C)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (D)a lie in my right hand?”
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