Bible Cross References
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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 29:9-14
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Go ahead and be stupid! Go ahead and be blind! Get drunk without any wine! Stagger without drinking a drop!
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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.
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The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.
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So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."
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?"
Isaiah 56:10
He says, "All the leaders, who are supposed to warn my people, are blind! They know nothing. They are like watch dogs that don't bark---they only lie around and dream. How they love to sleep!
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?
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.
Malachi 2:7
It is the duty of priests to teach the true knowledge of God. People should go to them to learn my will, because they are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.
Malachi 2:8
"But now you priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have broken the covenant I made with you.
Matthew 15:14
"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."
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!
John 3:10
Jesus answered, "You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this?
Romans 1:18-22
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God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known.
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God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.
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Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!
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They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.
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They say they are wise, but they are fools;
Romans 1:28-22
2 Corinthians 3:15
Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.
2 Corinthians 4:3
For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.
2 Corinthians 4:4
They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
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and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
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And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.
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The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
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Job 5:13
Proverbs 26:4
If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.
Proverbs 26:5
Give a silly answer to a silly question, and the one who asked it will realize that he's not as smart as he thinks.
Matthew 16:4
How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah." So he left them and went away.
Matthew 21:27
So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things.
Luke 10:21
At that time Jesus was filled with joy by the Holy Spirit and said, "Father, Lord of heaven and earth! I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned. Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.
Luke 10:22
"My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
Luke 20:7
So they answered, "We don't know where it came from."
Luke 20:8
And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you, then, by what right I do these things."
Luke 22:66-69
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When day came, the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law met together, and Jesus was brought before the Council.
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"Tell us," they said, "are you the Messiah?" He answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe me;
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and if I ask you a question, you will not answer.
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But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right side of Almighty God."
John 9:27
"I have already told you," he answered, "and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you, too, would like to be his disciples?"