Acts 8:30
New Living Translation
30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
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Matthew 13:23
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23 The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
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Luke 24:44-45
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44 Then he said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
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Matthew 15:10
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10 Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “Listen,” he said, “and try to understand.
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Matthew 13:19
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19 The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message about the Kingdom and don’t understand it. Then the evil one comes and snatches away the seed that was planted in their hearts.
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Ephesians 5:17
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17 Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.
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1 Corinthians 14:19
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19 But in a church meeting I would rather speak five understandable words to help others than ten thousand words in an unknown language.
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John 5:39
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39 “You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
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Mark 13:14
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14 “The day is coming when you will see the sacrilegious object that causes desecration[a] standing where he[b] should not be.” (Reader, pay attention!) “Then those in Judea must flee to the hills.
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Matthew 24:15
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15 “The day is coming when you will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about—the sacrilegious object that causes desecration[a] standing in the Holy Place.” (Reader, pay attention!)
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Matthew 13:51
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[a] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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- 9:10 Hebrew to Sheol.
Psalm 119:32
New Living Translation
32 I will pursue your commands,
for you expand my understanding.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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