Cross references

Ephesians 4:18

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.

Ephesians 4:18 BSB

Ephesians 4:18 has 24 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 13 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 13:15 (23 votes) and Ephesians 2:12 (15 votes). 49 other verses point back to it. It links with 25 other books, from Leviticus 11 to 1 John 2.

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Which verses does Ephesians 4:18 point to?

The 20 strongest of 24, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

  2. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

  3. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, …

  4. John 12:4011 votes

    “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

  5. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

  6. not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

  7. Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

  8. James 4:48 votes

    You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

  9. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  10. because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

  11. Acts 17:304 votes
  12. Mark 3:52 votes

    Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.

Which verses point to Ephesians 4:18?

The 10 strongest of 49.