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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ephesians 4:18 in context
Ephesians 4:15–21
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but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
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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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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
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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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They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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But you didn’t learn Christ that way,
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if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
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