Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
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- 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- Matt 13:15 : 15 For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'
- Mark 8:17-18 : 17 Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened? 18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?
- Mark 8:21 : 21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"
- Luke 24:25 : 25 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 6:6 : 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
- John 16:12 : 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
- Acts 28:27 : 27 For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And would turn again, And I would heal them.'
- Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat; 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."
- 1 Kgs 10:1 : 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
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- Heb 5:12-143 verses81%
12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
- Heb 2:1-33 verses74%
1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;
3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
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15 while it is said, "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts, as in the rebellion."
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10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
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2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
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7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice,
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30 For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
- Heb 4:6-72 verses69%
6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
7 he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, Don't harden your hearts."
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5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, don't take lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him;
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60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
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25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
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2 The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
- Heb 6:4-52 verses68%
4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
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26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive.
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9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
- Heb 6:11-122 verses68%
11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
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9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
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11 Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
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9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
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1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
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12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
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6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
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11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
- Heb 4:1-22 verses67%
1 Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps a promise being left of entering into his rest, anyone of you should seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
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15 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
- Heb 1:1-22 verses67%
1 God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
2 has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
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1 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
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20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, tempest,
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32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
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15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
- Heb 3:12-132 verses66%
12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
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20 for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard."
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7 always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
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15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,