Context 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding,1 being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
[4:18]1tn In the Greek text this clause is actually subordinate to περιπατεῖ (peripatei) in v. 17. It was broken up in the English translation so as to avoid an unnecessarily long and cumbersome statement.
