Romans 11:8

American Standard Version (1901)

according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

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  • Deut 29:4 : 4 but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
  • 2 Cor 3:14-15 : 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
  • Mark 4:11-12 : 11 And he said unto them, Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables: 12 that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
  • Acts 28:26 : 26 saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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    7What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

  • Rom 11:9-11
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    9And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

    10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

    11I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation [is come] unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

  • John 12:39-40
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    39For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again,

    40He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, And should turn, And I should heal them.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

    27For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    13Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

    14And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

    15For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

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

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

    10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

    11And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed:

  • 2 Cor 3:14-15
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    14but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed [to them] that it is done away in Christ.

    15But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

  • Deut 29:4
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    4but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

  • Rom 11:25
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    25For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;

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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

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    18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

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    27And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.

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    16They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

    17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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    4in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them] .

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    18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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    30For as ye in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

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    21but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

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  • Isa 28:12
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  • Jer 5:21
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    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:

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    32Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

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    16But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

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  • Rom 10:18-19
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    18But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily, Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

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    8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

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    8Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

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    15And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.