2 Chronicles 7:14 ( KJV 1900 )
14
If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from
their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land.
Matthew 13:13–15 ( KJV 1900
)
13
Therefore speak I to
them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear
not, neither do they understand.
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.
Matthew 15:14 ( KJV 1900 )
14
Let them alone: they
be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both
shall fall into the ditch.
Mark 4:11–12 ( KJV 1900 )
11
And he said unto them, Unto
you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto
them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
12
That seeing they may
see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand;
lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be
forgiven them.
Luke 8:10 ( KJV 1900 )
10
And he said, Unto
you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to
others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they
might not understand.
John 3:19–20 ( KJV 1900 )
19
And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20
For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved.
John 5:39–40 ( KJV 1900 )
39
Search the
scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are
they which testify of me.
40
And ye will not come
to me, that ye might have life.
John 8:43–47 ( KJV 1900 )
43
Why do ye not
understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44
Ye are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he
is a liar, and the father of it.
45
And because I tell
you the truth, ye believe me not.
46
Which of you
convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe
me?
47
He that is of God
heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are
not of God.
John 12:37–40 ( KJV 1900 )
37
But though he had done so many miracles
before them, yet they believed not on him:
38
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might
be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and
to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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.
Acts 28:26–27 ( KJV 1900 )
26
Saying, Go unto this people, and say,
Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and not perceive:
27
For the heart of this people is waxed
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they
closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I
should heal them.
Romans 1:21–22 ( KJV 1900 )
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,
Romans 10:2–3 ( KJV 1900 )
2
For I bear them record that they have a
zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3
For they being ignorant of God’s
righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 11:7–10 ( KJV 1900 )
7
What then? Israel hath not obtained that
which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest
were blinded
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.
1 Corinthians 1:18–21 ( KJV
1900 )
18
For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power
of God.
19
For it is written, I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent.
20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe?
where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world?
21
For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ( KJV 1900 )
14
But the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:1–3 ( KJV
1900 )
1
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you
as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2
I have fed you with milk, and not with
meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are
ye able.
3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is
among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and
walk as men?
1 Corinthians 8:1–2 ( KJV
1900 )
1
Now as touching things offered unto idols,
we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity
edifieth.
2
And if any man think that he knoweth any
thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
2 Corinthians 3:14–15 ( KJV
1900 )
14
But their minds were blinded: for until
this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the
old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15
But even unto this day, when Moses is read,
the vail is upon their heart.
2 Corinthians 4:3–4 ( KJV
1900 )
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.
Ephesians 4:17–18 ( KJV
1900 )
17
This I say therefore, and testify in the
Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the
vanity of their mind,
18
Having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart:
Colossians 2:8 ( KJV 1900 )
8
Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 (
KJV 1900 )
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.
1 Timothy 1:6–7 ( KJV 1900
)
6
From which some having swerved have turned
aside unto vain jangling;
7
Desiring to be teachers of the law;
understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
1 Timothy 6:3–5 ( KJV 1900
)
3
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not
to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting
about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings,
5
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself.
2 Timothy 3:1–7 ( KJV 1900
)
1
This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come.
2
For men shall be lovers of their own
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy,
3
Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God;
5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away.
6
For of this sort are they which creep into
houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with
divers lusts,
7
Ever learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth.
2 Timothy 4:3–4 ( KJV 1900
)
3
For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4
And they shall turn away their ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Titus 1:15–16 ( KJV 1900 )
15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto
them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
16
They profess that they know God; but in
works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto
every good work reprobate.
2 Peter 2:1–3 ( KJV 1900 )
1
But there were false prophets also among
the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2
And many shall follow their pernicious
ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3
And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long
time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter 3:16 ( KJV 1900 )
16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the
other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Jude 10 ( KJV 1900 )
10
But these speak evil of those things which
they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in
those things they corrupt themselves.