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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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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?

Matthew 13:9
He who has ears, let him give ear.

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.

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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.

Matthew 13:51
Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.

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;

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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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?

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.

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.

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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 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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