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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John 12:39-40
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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.”(A)
John 5:43
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43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.
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Romans 8:7-8
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7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,(A) 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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John 7:17
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17 Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.(A)
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Acts 7:51
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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A)
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John 8:27
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27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
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John 6:60
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60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”
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Jeremiah 6:10
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10 To whom shall I speak and give warning,
that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;[a]
they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
they take no pleasure in it.(A)
Footnotes
- 6.10 Heb are uncircumcised
Proverbs 28:5
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5 The evil do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.(A)
Isaiah 44:18
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18 They do not know, nor do they comprehend, for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.(A)
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Isaiah 6:9
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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)
Micah 4:12
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12 But they do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.(A)
Hosea 14:9
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9 Those who are wise understand these things;
those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them.(A)
Romans 3:11
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11 there is no one who has understanding;
there is no one who seeks God.
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