Bible Cross References
the understanding
Psalm 74:20
Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Psalm 115:4-8
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Their idols [are] silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
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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 mutter through their throat.
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Those who make them are like them; [So is] everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:18-20
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They do not know nor understand; For He has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, [And] their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
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And no one considers in his heart, Nor [is there] knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire, Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten [it;] And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"
20
He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, "[Is there] not a lie in my right hand?"
Isaiah 46:5-8
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" To whom will you liken Me, and make [Me] equal And compare Me, that we should be alike?
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They lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silver on the scales; They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; They prostrate themselves, yes, they worship.
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They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it And set it in its place, and it stands; From its place it shall not move. Though [one] cries out to it, yet it cannot answer Nor save him out of his trouble.
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" Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
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, [in order] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness 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 knew God, they did not glorify [Him] as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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Professing to be wise, they became fools,
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and changed 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 believe.
2 Corinthians 4:4
whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Galatians 4:8
But then, 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 cannot please God.
Galatians 4:8
But then, 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 enemies 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 wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
because
Romans 1:21
because, although they knew God, they did not glorify [Him] as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were 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 spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
Matthew 13:15
For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears, Lest they should understand with [their] hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.'
John 12:40
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with [their] eyes, Lest they should understand with [their] hearts and turn, So that I should heal them."
Romans 11:25
For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.