Psalms 146:8

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Psalms 146:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

7 He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,

8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

9 The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

10 The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Hallelujah!

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Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 42:18

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Matthew 9:30

And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

Luke 18:41

“What do you want Me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “let me see again.”

Luke 18:42

“Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”

John 9:7

Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.

John 9:8

At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

John 9:9

Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”

John 9:10

“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

John 9:11

He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”

John 9:12

“Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.

John 9:13

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

John 9:14

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

John 9:15

So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”

John 9:16

Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.

John 9:17

So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

John 9:18

The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned his parents

John 9:19

and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”

John 9:20

His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.

John 9:21

But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

John 9:22

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

John 9:23

That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

John 9:24

So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

John 9:25

He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”

John 9:26

“What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”

John 9:27

He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

John 9:28

Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.

John 9:29

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”

John 9:30

“That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

John 9:32

Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.

John 9:33

If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

Ephesians 1:18

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Psalms 145:14

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Psalms 147:6

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

Luke 13:11

and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

Luke 13:12

When Jesus saw her, He called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your disability.”

Luke 13:13

Then He placed His hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and began to glorify God.

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

Psalms 11:7

For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

John 14:21

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

John 14:22

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

John 16:27

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.