Bible Cross References
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
John 8:43
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
John 8:47
He who comes from God listens to God's words. You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen."
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 42:18-20
18
The LORD says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
19
Is anyone more blind than my servant, more deaf than the messenger I send?
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 59:10
and we grope about like blind people. We stumble at noon, as if it were night, as if we were in the dark world of the dead.
Romans 11:7-10
7
What then? The people of Israel did not find what they were looking for. It was only the small group that God chose who found it; the rest grew deaf to God's call.
8
As the scripture says, "God made their minds and hearts dull; to this very day they cannot see or hear."
9
And David says, "May they be caught and trapped at their feasts; may they fall, may they be punished!
10
May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times."
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.