Font Size
Romans 9:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 9:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.
Read full chapter
Romans 9:18
New International Version
Romans 9:18
New International Version
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)
Joshua 11:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Joshua 11:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.(A)
Read full chapter
Joshua 11:20
New International Version
Joshua 11:20
New International Version
20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts(A) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.(B)
Romans 9:15-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 9:15-16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”(A)
16 So it depends not on human will or exertion but on God who shows mercy.
Read full chapter
Romans 9:15-16
New International Version
Romans 9:15-16
New International Version
15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[a](A)
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.(B)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
Exodus 4:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 4:21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power, but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.(A)
Read full chapter
Exodus 4:21
New International Version
Exodus 4:21
New International Version
21 The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders(A) I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart(B) so that he will not let the people go.(C)
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Read full chapter
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
New International Version
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
New International Version
10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(A) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them(C) a powerful delusion(D) so that they will believe the lie(E) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(F)
Romans 11:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 11:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Romans 11:7-8
New International Version
Romans 11:7-8
New International Version
7 What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain.(A) The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,(B) 8 as it is written:
Footnotes
- Romans 11:8 Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10
Deuteronomy 2:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Deuteronomy 2:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 2:30
New International Version
Deuteronomy 2:30
New International Version
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord(A) your God had made his spirit stubborn(B) and his heart obstinate(C) in order to give him into your hands,(D) as he has now done.
Romans 5:20-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 5:20-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,(A) 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read full chapter
Romans 5:20-21
New International Version
Romans 5:20-21
New International Version
Romans 1:24-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Romans 1:24-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(A) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(B)
26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(C) 27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(D)
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(E)
Read full chapter
Romans 1:24-28
New International Version
Romans 1:24-28
New International Version
24 Therefore God gave them over(A) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(B) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,(C) and worshiped and served created things(D) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.(E) Amen.(F)
26 Because of this, God gave them over(G) to shameful lusts.(H) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(I) 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(J)
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(K) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.
Acts 28:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Acts 28:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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.’
28 “Let it be known to you, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles; they will listen.”[a]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 28.28 Other ancient authorities add 28.29, And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, arguing vigorously among themselves
Acts 28:26-28
New International Version
Acts 28:26-28
New International Version
26 “‘Go to this people and say,
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
27 For this people’s heart has become calloused;(A)
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)
28 “Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation(C) has been sent to the Gentiles,(D) and they will listen!”
Footnotes
- Acts 28:27 Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)
Isaiah 63:17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 63:17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Exodus 7:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Exodus 7:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.(A)
Read full chapter
Exodus 7:13
New International Version
Exodus 7:13
New International Version
13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart(A) became hard and he would not listen(B) to them, just as the Lord had said.
Matthew 13:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Matthew 13:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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.(A)
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.’(B)
Matthew 13:14-15
New International Version
Matthew 13:14-15
New International Version
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)
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.