Ephesians 4:17-18

The New Life

¹⁷ Now this I say and _d testify in the Lord, _e that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, _f in the futility of their minds. ¹⁸ They _g are darkened in their understanding, _h alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to _i their hardness of heart.

1. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 2:12
   We exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
   
2. Cross References
   Ephesians 4:22
   To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
   Ephesians 2:1 - 3
   And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
   Colossians 3:7
   In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.
   1 Peter 4:3
   For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 1:21
   For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
   1 Peter 1:18
   Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold.
   Colossians 2:18
   Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.
   2 Peter 2:18
   For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
   
4. Cross References
   Romans 11:10
   Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.
   
5. Cross References
   Ephesians 2:12
   Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
   
6. Cross References
   Mark 3:5
   And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.