Catholic Public Domain Version
"having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts. "
— Ephesians 4:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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:”
“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; ”
“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;”
“They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.”
“Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.”
“Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;”
“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:”
Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself.
For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.
And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity.
But this is not what you have learned in Christ.
For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus: