Matthew 13:15

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Matthew 13:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible

13 This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’

14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

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Psalms 119:70

Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

John 8:44

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Acts 7:57

At this they covered their ears, cried out in a loud voice, and rushed together at him.

2 Timothy 4:4

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Hebrews 5:11

We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

Isaiah 29:11

And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Isaiah 29:12

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

2 Thessalonians 2:11

For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

Acts 3:19

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

2 Timothy 2:25

He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Hebrews 6:4

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6:5

who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.

Jeremiah 33:6

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Mark 4:12

so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”

Revelation 22:2

down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.