Deuteronomy 29:4

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But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

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  • Prov 20:12 : 12 The ear that hears and the eye that sees– the LORD has made them both.
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’ 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
  • John 8:43 : 43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
  • Acts 28:26-27 : 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
  • Isa 63:17 : 17 Why, LORD, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. 12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.
  • Deut 2:30 : 30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the LORD our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.
  • Jas 1:13-17 : 13 Let no one say when he is tempted,“I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death. 16 Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.
  • Ezek 36:26 : 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.
  • Matt 13:11-15 : 11 He replied,“You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not. 12 For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand. 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend. 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened, 8 as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.” 9 And David says,“Let their table become a snare and trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”
  • 2 Cor 3:15 : 15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds,
  • John 12:38-40 : 38 so that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled. He said,“Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39 For this reason they could not believe, because again Isaiah said, 40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

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  • Isa 44:18
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    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Isa 42:20
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    20You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

    10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

    27For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’

  • Mark 8:17-18
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    17When he learned of this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

    18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  • Rom 11:8
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    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Job 17:4
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    4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

  • Deut 29:3
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    3Your eyes have seen the great judgments, those signs and mighty wonders.

  • Deut 29:5-6
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    5I have led you through the wilderness for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

    6You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer– all so that you might know that I am the LORD your God!

  • Deut 1:32
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    32However, through all this you did not have confidence in the LORD your God,

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers).

    11To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.”

  • Ps 115:5-6
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    5They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

    6ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    13For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

    15For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’

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

  • Mark 4:12
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    12so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.”

  • Job 10:4
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    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

  • Deut 11:2
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    2Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the LORD your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    16They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • Isa 64:4
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    4Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.

  • Isa 42:18
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    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • John 12:40
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    40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

  • Jer 42:21
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    21This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the LORD your God by doing what he sent me to tell you.

  • Deut 11:7
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    7I am speaking to you because you are the ones who saw all the great deeds of the LORD!

  • Isa 32:3
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    3Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

  • Deut 4:15
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    15The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

  • Deut 28:28
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    28The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.

  • Deut 1:45
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    45Then you came back and wept before the LORD, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.

  • Deut 4:12
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    12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.

  • Deut 2:7
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    7All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

  • Deut 8:4
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    4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

  • Deut 4:34
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    34Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

  • Ezek 12:2
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    2“Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.

  • Deut 28:34
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    34You will go insane from seeing all this.

  • 2 Cor 3:14
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    14But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the LORD your God has not given you permission to do such things.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

  • Jer 25:7
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    7So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’