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:
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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:
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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 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 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?
Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
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.
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.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
Exodus 4:21
And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
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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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.
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.
Acts 28:25
And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,
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.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
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.
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 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.
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?
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.
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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 13:13
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.
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.
Matthew 10:27
What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.
Matthew 13:51
Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.
Mark 4:10
And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.
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;
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?
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.
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.
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.
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,
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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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Isaiah 42:20
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
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.
John 12:37
But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:
John 12:38
So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?
John 12:41
(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?
Isaiah 43:8
Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
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.
Romans 1:17
For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
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Matthew 3:3
For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.
Matthew 12:17
So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true,
Matthew 8:17
So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.
Matthew 20:28
Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.
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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;
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.
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?
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
Proverbs 1:29
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
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.
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
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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2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
2 Thessalonians 2:12
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
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.
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
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Matthew 4:14
So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,
Matthew 4:15
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
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Matthew 13:10
And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?
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.
Matthew 5:8
Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside.
Mark 4:34
And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
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Matthew 15:7
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
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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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Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
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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.
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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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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
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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