Bible Cross References
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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.
Psalm 69:23
Strike them with blindness! Make their backs always weak!
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 26:10-12
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Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.
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Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. LORD, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.
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You will give us prosperity, LORD; everything that we achieve is the result of what you do.
Isaiah 42:18-20
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The LORD says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
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Is anyone more blind than my servant, more deaf than the messenger I send?
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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 44:18
Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
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!
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.
Jeremiah 5:21
Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.
Ezekiel 12:2
"Mortal man," he said, "you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they see nothing; they have ears, but they hear nothing, because they are rebellious.
Matthew 6:23
but if your eyes are no good, your body will be in darkness. So if the light in you is darkness, how terribly dark it will be!
Matthew 13:11
Jesus answered, "The knowledge about the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.
Matthew 13:13-15
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The reason I use parables in talking to them is that they look, but do not see, and they listen, but do not hear or understand.
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So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them: 'This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see,
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because their minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.'
John 9:39-41
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Jesus said, "I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see and those who see should become blind."
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Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, "Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?"
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Jesus answered, "If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty."
John 12:40
"God has blinded their eyes and closed their minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their minds would not understand, and they would not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them."
Acts 28:26
For he said, 'Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see,
Acts 28:27
because this people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.' "
Romans 11:7-10
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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.
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As the scripture says, "God made their minds and hearts dull; to this very day they cannot see or hear."
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And David says, "May they be caught and trapped at their feasts; may they fall, may they be punished!
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May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times."
Romans 11:25-10
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2 Corinthians 4:6
The God who said, "Out of darkness the light shall shine!" is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts, to bring us the knowledge of God's glory shining in the face of Christ.
Isaiah 25:7
Here he will suddenly remove the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations.
Matthew 16:17
"Good for you, Simon son of John!" answered Jesus. "For this truth did not come to you from any human being, but it was given to you directly by my Father in heaven.
Luke 18:31-34
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Jesus took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going to Jerusalem where everything the prophets wrote about the Son of Man will come true.
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He will be handed over to the Gentiles, who will make fun of him, insult him, and spit on him.
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They will whip him and kill him, but three days later he will rise to life."
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But the disciples did not understand any of these things; the meaning of the words was hidden from them, and they did not know what Jesus was talking about.
Luke 24:25-27
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Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!
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Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"
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And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.
Luke 24:44-46
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Then he said to them, "These are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets, and the Psalms had to come true."
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Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
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and said to them, "This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later,
John 8:12
Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. "I am the light of the world," he said. "Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness."
John 12:46
I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.
Acts 16:14
One of those who heard us was Lydia from Thyatira, who was a dealer in purple cloth. She was a woman who worshiped God, and the Lord opened her mind to pay attention to what Paul was saying.
Acts 26:18
You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'
Ephesians 1:17-20
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and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
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I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,
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and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
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which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.