John 8:43
New Living Translation
43 Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It’s because you can’t even hear me!
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John 12:39-40
New Living Translation
39 But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,
40 “The Lord has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts—
so that their eyes cannot see,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and have me heal them.”[a]
John 5:43
New Living Translation
43 For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.
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Romans 8:7-8
New Living Translation
7 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. 8 That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
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John 7:17
New Living Translation
17 Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.
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Acts 7:51
New Living Translation
51 “You stubborn people! You are heathen[a] at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!
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- 7:51 Greek uncircumcised.
John 8:27
New Living Translation
27 But they still didn’t understand that he was talking about his Father.
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John 6:60
New Living Translation
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60 Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”
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Jeremiah 6:10
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Judah’s Constant Rebellion
10 To whom can I give warning?
Who will listen when I speak?
Their ears are closed,
and they cannot hear.
They scorn the word of the Lord.
They don’t want to listen at all.
Proverbs 28:5
New Living Translation
5 Evil people don’t understand justice,
but those who follow the Lord understand completely.
Isaiah 44:18
New Living Translation
18 Such stupidity and ignorance!
Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see.
Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
Isaiah 6:9
New Living Translation
9 And he said, “Yes, go, and say to this people,
‘Listen carefully, but do not understand.
Watch closely, but learn nothing.’
Micah 4:12
New Living Translation
12 But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts
or understand his plan.
These nations don’t know
that he is gathering them together
to be beaten and trampled
like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.
Hosea 14:9
New Living Translation
9 Let those who are wise understand these things.
Let those with discernment listen carefully.
The paths of the Lord are true and right,
and righteous people live by walking in them.
But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.
Romans 3:11
New Living Translation
11 No one is truly wise;
no one is seeking God.
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