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


In Context

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

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

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

19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

20 You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.

Ephesians 4:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:18being 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;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18being 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,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:18being 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;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18being 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;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: