Ephesians 4:18 - Compare All Versions
Ephesians 4:17-19 MSG (The Message)
And so I insist—and God backs me up on this—that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.
Ephesians 4:18 KJV (King James 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
Ephesians 4:18 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
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
Ephesians 4:18 NCV (New Century Version)
They do not understand, and they know nothing, because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.
Ephesians 4:18 ASV (American Standard Version)
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
Ephesians 4:18 NIV (New International Version)
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
Ephesians 4:18 NKJV (New King James Version)
having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart
Ephesians 4:18 AMP (Amplified Bible)
for their [moral] understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; [they are] alienated and self-banished from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the [willful] ignorance and spiritual blindness that is [deep-seated] within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.
Ephesians 4:18 NLT (New Living Translation)
Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
Ephesians 4:18 TPT (The Passion Translation)
Their corrupted logic has been clouded because their hearts are so far from God—their blinded understanding and deep-seated moral darkness keeps them from the true knowledge of God.
Ephesians 4:18 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.