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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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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?

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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Isaiah 42:18
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

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.

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.

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 13:10
And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of 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;

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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.

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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Matthew 15:7
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

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