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.”
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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.”
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Exodus 7:14
Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
Exodus 10:20
But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
Exodus 11:10
Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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Deuteronomy 28:28
Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Isaiah 29:9
Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isaiah 29:11
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”
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.”
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Amos 8:9
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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Job 24:13
“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.
Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Matthew 23:37
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
John 1:11
He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 5:40
Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 12:36
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
John 15:24
If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my 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.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
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Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
Isaiah 42:18
“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
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?”
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.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
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;
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
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Matthew 13:16
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
John 5:36
But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 6:37
All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
John 8:47
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
John 14:9
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
2 Corinthians 3:12
Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
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Luke 22:67
“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,
John 5:45
“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 5:46
For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
John 5:47
But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
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John 10:35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
John 19:28
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
Acts 13:27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
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James 1:16
Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
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James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
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James 5:16
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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