“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:”
King James Version (KJV)
4:18 Having their understanding darkened, through the ignorance that is in them - So that they are totally void of the light of God, neither have they any knowledge of his will. Being alienated from the life of God - Utter strangers to the divine, the spiritual life. Through the hardness of their hearts - Callous and senseless. And where there is no sense, there can be no life.
Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened. He shows how the Gentiles walk in vanity. They are in darkness, unenlightened by the gospel. Alienated from the life of God. Without the spiritual life that comes from knowing God. Because of blindness of their heart. The idea is a willful blindness.
Hauing the vnderstanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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;
- American Standard Version (1901)
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
- Basic English Bible
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,
- Darby Bible
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:
- Webster's Bible
with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.
- Weymouth Bible
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;
- World English Bible
that han vndurstondyng derkned with derknessis, and ben alienyd fro the lijf of God, bi ignoraunce that is in hem, for the blyndenesse of her herte.
- Wycliffe Bible
being 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,
- Youngs Literal Bible