Matthew 13:13
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
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Matthew 13:13
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
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Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that 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.
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Jeremiah 5:21
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
John 9:39
And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.
John 9:40
These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?
Deuteronomy 29:3
The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:
Deuteronomy 29:4
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isaiah 42:18
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
Isaiah 42:20
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?
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Matthew 13:11
And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Matthew 13:12
Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Matthew 13:16
But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.
Matthew 13:17
For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.
Mark 4:11
And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;
Matthew 13:51
Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
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.
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
Psalms 119:18
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
Isaiah 29:18
And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.
Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
Ephesians 1:17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
Ephesians 1:18
And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,
1 John 5:20
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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Matthew 13:9
He who has ears, let him give ear.
Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?
John 10:6
In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.
John 16:25
All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside.
Matthew 13:2
And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.
Matthew 13:3
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;
John 16:29
His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language.
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Luke 8:10
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
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.
Mark 4:12
So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.
Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
Romans 11:8
As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
Romans 11:9
And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.
2 Corinthians 4:3
But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
Ezekiel 14:9
And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
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Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:
Matthew 13:35
That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.
Mark 4:33
And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:
Mark 4:34
And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.
Psalms 49:4
I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
Psalms 78:2
Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;
Proverbs 1:6
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?
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John 3:3
Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.
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Psalms 82:5
They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
Psalms 94:8
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Micah 4:12
But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.
John 1:5
And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
Romans 1:31
Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.
2 Peter 3:5
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
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Isaiah 29:11
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:
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Matthew 3:7
But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
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Matthew 13:23
And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
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Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
Galatians 4:21
Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
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John 3:5
Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.
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1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.
1 Corinthians 2:10
But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.
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