Bible Cross References
the understanding
Psalm 74:20
Have regard to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the abode of violence.
Psalm 115:4-8
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Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
5
They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;
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they have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;
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they have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they utter through their throat.
8
Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:18-20
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They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.
19
And no one considers within his heart, nor is there perception nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; indeed, also I have baked bread on its coals; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I prostrate myself to a piece of wood?
20
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is this not a lie in my right hand?
Isaiah 46:5-8
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To whom will you compare Me, and make Me equal; and compare Me, that we may be alike?
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They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out on the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it into a god; they prostrate themselves, yea, they bow down.
7
They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry unto it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8
Remember this, and be a man; refresh the memory of your heart, you who rebel.
Acts 17:30
Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
Acts 26:17
I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
Romans 1:21-23
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because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.
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Professing to be wise, they become foolish,
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and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:28-23
1 Corinthians 1:21
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.
2 Corinthians 4:4
whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.
Galatians 4:8
However, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles, who do not know God;
alienated
Ephesians 2:12
that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.
Romans 8:8
So then, those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
Galatians 4:8
However, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.
Colossians 1:21
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles, who do not know God;
James 4:4
Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore purposes to be a friend of the world is shown to be opposing God.
because
Romans 1:21
because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.
Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
blindness
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him.
Matthew 13:15
for the heart of this people has grown dull, their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, that they should not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart and convert, and I should heal them.
John 12:40
He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, that they should not understand with their hearts and be turned, and I should heal them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, that you not be wise within yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in.