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John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

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John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?

Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

John 6:60
Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

Hebrews 5:11
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.

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John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

John 12:40
He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Isaiah 6:9
And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

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Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

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Romans 8:8
So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

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