Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 5:4
Then I thought, "These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the LORD wants them to do.
Jeremiah 5:21
Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.
Jeremiah 8:7-9
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Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you.
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How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.
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Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom do they have now?
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the way you should treat the LORD, you foolish, senseless people? He is your father, your Creator, he made you into a nation.
Deuteronomy 32:28
"Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.
Psalm 14:1-4
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Fools say to themselves, "There is no God!" They are all corrupt, and they have done terrible things; there is no one who does what is right.
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The LORD looks down from heaven at us humans to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.
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But they have all gone wrong; they are all equally bad. Not one of them does what is right, not a single one.
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"Don't they know?" asks the LORD. "Are all these evildoers ignorant? They live by robbing my people, and they never pray to me."
Isaiah 1:3
Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all."
Isaiah 6:9
So he told me to go and give the people this message: "No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening."
Isaiah 6:10
Then he said to me, "Make the minds of these people dull, their ears deaf, and their eyes blind, so that they cannot see or hear or understand. If they did, they might turn to me and be healed."
Isaiah 27:11
The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.
Isaiah 29:10-12
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The LORD has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.
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The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed.
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If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.
Isaiah 42:19
Is anyone more blind than my servant, more deaf than the messenger I send?
Isaiah 42:20
Israel, you have seen so much, but what has it meant to you? You have ears to hear with, but what have you really heard?"
Hosea 4:1
The LORD has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: "There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.
Hosea 4:6
My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.
Matthew 23:16-26
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"How terrible for you, blind guides! You teach, 'If someone swears by the Temple, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.'
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Blind fools! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
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You also teach, 'If someone swears by the altar, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gift on the altar, he is bound.'
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How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?
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So then, when a person swears by the altar, he is swearing by it and by all the gifts on it;
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and when he swears by the Temple, he is swearing by it and by God, who lives there;
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and when someone swears by heaven, he is swearing by God's throne and by him who sits on it.
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"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You give to God one tenth even of the seasoning herbs, such as mint, dill, and cumin, but you neglect to obey the really important teachings of the Law, such as justice and mercy and honesty. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.
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Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!
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"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have gotten by violence and selfishness.
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Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
Romans 1:22
They say they are wise, but they are fools;
Romans 3:11
no one who is wise or who worships God.
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Hosea 5:4
The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.
John 16:3
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
Romans 1:28
Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.
1 Corinthians 1:20
So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
1 Corinthians 1:21
For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
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2 Samuel 13:3
But he had a friend, a very shrewd man named Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shammah.
2 Samuel 16:21-23
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Ahithophel answered, "Go and have intercourse with your father's concubines whom he left behind to take care of the palace. Then everyone in Israel will know that your father regards you as his enemy, and your followers will be greatly encouraged."
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So they set up a tent for Absalom on the palace roof, and in the sight of everyone Absalom went in and had intercourse with his father's concubines.
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Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God; both David and Absalom followed it.
Micah 2:1
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
Luke 16:8
As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light."
Romans 16:19
Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel, and for this reason I am happy about you. I want you to be wise about what is good, but innocent in what is evil.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Do not be like children in your thinking, my friends; be children so far as evil is concerned, but be grown up in your thinking.