Ephesians 4:18
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.
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Ephesians 4:18
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.
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Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Jeremiah 11:8
Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”
Jeremiah 16:12
You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
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Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
Isaiah 6:9
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Isaiah 29:10
For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 42:18
“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
John 8:43
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Romans 11:8
According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
John 7:7
The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Acts 3:17
“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
Acts 14:16
who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Acts 17:23
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
2 Thessalonians 1:8
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
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Psalms 115:8
Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:10
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Isaiah 45:20
“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
1 Corinthians 12:2
You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
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Ezekiel 44:10
“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 5:4
Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.
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Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
Isaiah 25:7
He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Romans 5:10
For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Colossians 1:13
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
1 Thessalonians 5:4
But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
1 Peter 1:11
searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them pointed to when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow them.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.
Mark 10:39
They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
John 13:37
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
Romans 7:18
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.
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Ephesians 4:2
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Ephesians 4:8
Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”
Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
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Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
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Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
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Ephesians 5:5
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7
Therefore don’t be partakers with them.
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Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Revelation 3:1
“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
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1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
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Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:6
whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior;
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2 Peter 3:1
This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you
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