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.
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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.
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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:
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.
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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 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.
Hebrews 5:11
Of whom we have much to say which it is hard to make clear, because you are slow of hearing.
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;
Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?
Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.
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.
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Zechariah 7:11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
Zechariah 7:12
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
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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.
John 12:41
(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
Psalms 119:70
Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
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 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?
John 8:47
He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
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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;
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.
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.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
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.
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.
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
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.
Romans 1:24
For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
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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.
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,
Matthew 15:14
Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
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.
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.
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.
Ephesians 4:18
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
Psalms 119:18
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
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:
2 Corinthians 4:6
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
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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.
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.
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.
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
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.
Psalms 92:6
A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
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 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Jeremiah 5:4
Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
Jeremiah 8:7
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law 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.
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
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Acts 3:19
So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;
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.
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!
2 Corinthians 3:16
But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.
James 5:20
Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
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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.
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 13:9
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?
Matthew 13:51
Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.
Luke 8:12
Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.
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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2 Timothy 4:4
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.
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;
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.
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Mark 3:5
And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.
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Mark 4:33
And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:
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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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2 Timothy 3:13
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
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James 5:16
So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
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Ezra 9:6
I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Matthew 12:45
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.
Matthew 26:74
Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
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Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
Jeremiah 33:6
See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.
Hosea 14:4
I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.
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Jeremiah 51:17
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Daniel 4:16
Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him.
Titus 1:12
One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.
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Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and was seated by the seaside.
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;
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Mark 4:34
And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.
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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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2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
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Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
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