Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
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Matthew 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive;
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Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Isaiah 44:18
They don’t know, neither do they consider, for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see, and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
Isaiah 44:19
No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
Isaiah 63:17
O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
John 8:43
Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
Exodus 4:21
Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
Isaiah 29:14
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
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Isaiah 6:9
He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
John 12:39
For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again:
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
Acts 28:25
When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one message: “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,
Acts 28:26
saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
Acts 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Romans 11:8
According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”
Deuteronomy 29:4
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Isaiah 29:10
For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 42:18
“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
Romans 11:25
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.
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Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
Matthew 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Matthew 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Matthew 13:51
Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”
Mark 4:10
When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
Mark 4:11
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”
Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
John 10:6
Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
John 16:25
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Ephesians 1:18
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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Mark 4:12
that ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
Ezekiel 12:2
“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.
Romans 11:9
David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
Isaiah 42:20
You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
2 Corinthians 3:14
But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
John 12:37
But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
John 12:38
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:41
Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
Mark 8:18
Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
Isaiah 43:8
Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
John 9:39
Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
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Matthew 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”
Matthew 12:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Matthew 8:17
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
Psalms 53:4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
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2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Ezekiel 14:9
“ ‘ “If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
Psalms 81:12
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
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Matthew 4:14
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Matthew 4:15
“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Matthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
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Matthew 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”
Matthew 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside.
Mark 4:34
Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
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Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
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John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
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Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
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Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
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John 3:5
Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and Spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
1 John 5:20
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
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