Deuteronomy 29:4
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4 But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.(A)
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Ephesians 4:18
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18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(A)
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John 8:43
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43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.
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Isaiah 63:17
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17 Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways
and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you?
Turn back for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your heritage.(A)
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, “Go and say to this people:
‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.’(A)
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
and stop their ears,
and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and comprehend with their minds
and turn and be healed.”(B)
Proverbs 20:12
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12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye—
the Lord has made them both.(A)
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
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10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(A) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(B) 12 so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.(C)
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2 Corinthians 3:15
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15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,[a]
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- 3.15 Gk their heart
Romans 11:7-10
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7 What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,(A) 8 as it is written,
“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”(B)
9 And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;(C)
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and keep their backs forever bent.”
Acts 28:26-27
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26 ‘Go to this people and say,
You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.
27 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’
John 12:38-40
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38 This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
“Lord, who has believed our message,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”(A)
39 And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”(B)
Matthew 13:11-15
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11 He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets[a] of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.(A) 12 For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance, but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.(B) 13 The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’(C) 14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.(D)
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes,
so that they might not look with their eyes,
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’(E)
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- 13.11 Or mysteries
Ezekiel 36:26
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26 A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you, and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.(A)
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Deuteronomy 2:30
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30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.(A)
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James 1:13-17
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13 No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one. 14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.(A)
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a](B)
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- 1.17 Other ancient authorities read variation due to a shadow of turning
2 Timothy 2:25
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25 correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth(A)
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