the understanding.

Psalm 74:20
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.

Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. . . .

Isaiah 44:18-20
They cannot comprehend or understand, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see, and closed their minds so they cannot understand. . . .

Isaiah 46:5-8
To whom will you liken Me or count Me equal? To whom will you compare Me, that we should be alike? . . .

Acts 17:30
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all men everywhere to repent.

Acts 26:17, 18
I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them . . .

Romans 1:21-23, 28
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. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

2 Corinthians 4:4
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.

Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

alienated.

Ephesians 2:12
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.

Romans 8:7, 8
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God's Law, nor can it do so. . . .

Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Colossians 1:21
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds.

1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

James 4:4
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.

because.

Romans 1:21
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.

Romans 2:19
if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

1 John 2:11
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.

blindness.

Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was exalted and his spirit hardened in pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.

Matthew 13:15
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.'

John 12:40
"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."

Romans 11:25
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.