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.
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to th
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their th
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Chr
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has c
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot u
I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike?
if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,
But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been l