Romans 11:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

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  • Deut 29:4 : 4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them. 14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
  • 2 Cor 3:14-15 : 14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ. 15 But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.
  • Mark 4:11-12 : 11 And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories; 12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
  • Acts 28:26 : 26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

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  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.

  • Rom 11:9-11
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    9And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

    10Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

    11So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

  • John 12:39-40
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    39For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

    40He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

    27For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    13For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

    14And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

    15For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

    16But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

    10Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

    11And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:

  • 2 Cor 3:14-15
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    14But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

    15But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.

  • Deut 29:4
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    4But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

  • Rom 11:25
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    25For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

  • Zech 7:11
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    11But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

  • Eph 4:18
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    18Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

  • Mark 8:18
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    18Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

  • Isa 42:18
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    18Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

  • Rom 11:27-28
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    27And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

    28As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    72%

    16They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

    17They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • 2 Cor 4:4
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    4Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

  • Rom 11:30-32
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    30For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,

    31So in the same way these have gone against the orders of God, so that by the mercy given to you they may now get mercy.

    32For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

  • 1 Pet 2:8
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    8And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

  • Isa 28:12
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    12To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

    33As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

  • Luke 24:16
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    16But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.

  • Ps 115:5-6
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    5They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

    6They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

  • Rom 10:18-19
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    18But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

    19But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

  • Isa 43:8
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    8Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

  • Isa 8:15
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    15And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.