Romans 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.

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  • Deut 29:4 : 4 Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
  • Isa 29:10 : 10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has He covered.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see but do not see; and ears to hear but do not hear: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 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 is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.
  • 2 Cor 3:14-15 : 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day, the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts.
  • Mark 4:11-12 : 11 And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables, 12 that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
  • Acts 28:26 : 26 saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 These nations feared the LORD, yet served their carved images. Their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fathers did, to this day.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

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  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

  • Rom 11:9-11
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    81%

    9And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

    10Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and bend their backs always.

    11I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

  • John 12:39-40
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    78%

    39Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

    40He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.

  • Isa 44:18
    77%

    18They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

    27For the heart of this people has 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, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    13This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

    15For this people's heart has become 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.

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

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    76%

    9And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

    10Make the heart of this people dull, 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 be converted and 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 at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has He covered.

    11And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, please: and he says, I cannot, for it is sealed.

  • 2 Cor 3:14-15
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    75%

    14But their minds were blinded: for until this day, the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.

    15But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts.

  • Deut 29:4
    74%

    4Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

  • Rom 11:25
    73%

    25For 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.

  • Zech 7:11
    72%

    11But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

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

  • Mark 8:18
    72%

    18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

  • Isa 42:18
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    18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

  • Rom 11:27-28
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    27For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

    28Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    16They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see;

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

  • 2 Cor 4:4
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    4In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

  • Isa 29:18
    71%

    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.

  • Rom 11:30-32
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    30For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

    31even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown to you they also may obtain mercy.

    32For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

  • Rom 15:21
    71%

    21But as it is written, Those who have not been told of him shall see, and those who have not heard shall understand.

  • 1 Pet 2:8
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    8And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

  • Isa 28:12
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    12To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

    33As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense; and whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

  • Luke 24:16
    70%

    16But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know him.

  • Ps 115:5-6
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    70%

    5They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

    6They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;

  • Rom 10:18-19
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    18But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: "Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."

    19But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says: "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation, I will anger you by a foolish nation."

  • Jer 11:8
    69%

    8Yet they did not obey nor incline their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • Isa 43:8
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    8Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

  • Isa 8:15
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    15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.