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Isaiah 44:18
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Isaiah 44:18
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Isaiah 44:18
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Isaiah 44:18
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18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
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Isaiah 6:9-10
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Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 He said, “Go(A) and tell this people:
“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(B)
10 Make the heart of this people calloused;(C)
make their ears dull
and close their eyes.[a](D)
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,(E)
understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”(F)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
Isaiah 6:9-10
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Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4
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3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
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John 12:39-40
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John 12:39-40
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39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
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- John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10
John 12:39-40
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John 12:39-40
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39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
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Jeremiah 5:21
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Jeremiah 5:21
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Jeremiah 5:21
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Jeremiah 5:21
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21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
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Psalm 81:12
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Psalm 81:12
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12 So I gave them over(A) to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own devices.
Psalm 81:12
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Psalm 81:12
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12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan(A) works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders(B) that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(C) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(D) 11 For this reason God sends them(E) a powerful delusion(F) so that they will believe the lie(G) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(H)
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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John 5:44
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John 5:44
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44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[a]?(A)
Footnotes
- John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One
John 5:44
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John 5:44
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44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
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Proverbs 2:5-9
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Proverbs 2:5-9
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5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.(A)
6 For the Lord gives wisdom;(B)
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(C)
7 He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield(D) to those whose walk is blameless,(E)
8 for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.(F)
9 Then you will understand(G) what is right and just
and fair—every good path.
Proverbs 2:5-9
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Proverbs 2:5-9
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5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
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Romans 11:8-10
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Romans 11:8-10
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8 as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,(A)
to this very day.”[a](B)
9 And David says:
Footnotes
- Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10
- Romans 11:10 Psalm 69:22,23
Romans 11:8-10
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Romans 11:8-10
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8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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Romans 1:21-23
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Romans 1:21-23
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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(A) 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(B) 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(C) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Romans 1:21-23
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Romans 1:21-23
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21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
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John 8:43
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John 8:43
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43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
John 8:43
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John 8:43
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43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
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Matthew 13:14-15
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Matthew 13:14-15
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14 In them is fulfilled(A) the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a](B)
Footnotes
- Matthew 13:15 Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)
Matthew 13:14-15
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Matthew 13:14-15
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14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
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