43 (A)Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot (B)bear to hear my word.

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43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

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39 Therefore they (A)could not believe. For again Isaiah said,

40 (B)“He has blinded their eyes
    and (C)hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
    and understand with their heart, and turn,
    and I would heal them.”

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39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

40 “He has blinded their eyes
    and hardened their hearts,
so they can neither see with their eyes,
    nor understand with their hearts,
    nor turn—and I would heal them.”[a](A)

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  1. John 12:40 Isaiah 6:10

43 I have come (A)in my Father's name, and (B)you do not receive me. (C)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

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43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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For the mind that is set on the flesh is (A)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; (B)indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh(B) cannot please God.

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17 (A)If anyone's will is to do God's[a] will, (B)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I (C)am speaking on my own authority.

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  1. John 7:17 Greek his

17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out(A) whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.

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51 “You stiff-necked people!(A) Your hearts(B) and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

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27 They did not understand that (A)he had been speaking to them about the Father.

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27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.

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The Words of Eternal Life

60 (A)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”

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Many Disciples Desert Jesus

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples(A) said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”(B)

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10 (A)To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
(B)Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
    (C)they cannot listen;
behold, (D)the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.

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10 To whom can I speak and give warning?
    Who will listen(A) to me?
Their ears are closed[a](B)
    so they cannot hear.(C)
The word(D) of the Lord is offensive to them;
    they find no pleasure in it.

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  1. Jeremiah 6:10 Hebrew uncircumcised

Evil men (A)do not understand justice,
    but those who seek the Lord (B)understand it completely.

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Evildoers do not understand what is right,
    but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

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18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

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18 They know nothing, they understand(A) nothing;
    their eyes(B) are plastered over so they cannot see,
    and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

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And he said, “Go, and say to this people:

(A)“‘Keep on hearing,[a] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[b] but do not perceive.’

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  1. Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
  2. Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed

He said, “Go(A) and tell this people:

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
    be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’(B)

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12 But (A)they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that (B)he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

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12 But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,(A)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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