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Blindness: Spiritual Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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Blindness: Spiritual Deuteronomy 32:28, 29

Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. / If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

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Blindness: Spiritual Judges 16:20

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

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Blindness: Spiritual Job 21:14

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

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Blindness: Spiritual Job 22:13, 14

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? / Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 10:5, 6

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes. / He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 14:1, 4

For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. / Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 73:2–28

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. / For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. / They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 79:6

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 82:5

They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 92:6

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 94:7, 8

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.” / Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 95:10

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 1:7, 22, 29, 30

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. / “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? / For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 7:7–23

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, / crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house, / at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame come to him who ignores discipline, but whoever heeds correction is honored.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 17:16

Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 19:2, 3

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark. / A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.

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Blindness: Spiritual Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

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Blindness: Spiritual Ecclesiastes 7:25

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 5:13, 20

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst. / Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 6:9, 10

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 26:10, 11

Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. / O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 27:11

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 28:13, 15

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured. / For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 29:10–12

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers. / And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.” / Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 40:21, 27, 28

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth? / Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”? / Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 42:6, 7, 18–20

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations, / to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house. / Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 44:18–20

They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand. / And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?” / He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

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Blindness: Spiritual Isaiah 60:2

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 5:4, 5, 21

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. / I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains. / “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 8:7–9

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD. / How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception? / The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 9:3, 6

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 16:10

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

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Blindness: Spiritual Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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Blindness: Spiritual Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

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Blindness: Spiritual Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

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Blindness: Spiritual Hosea 4:1, 6, 14

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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Blindness: Spiritual Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

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Blindness: Spiritual Hosea 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

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Blindness: Spiritual Amos 9:10

All the sinners among My people will die by the sword—all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

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Blindness: Spiritual Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 5:15, 16

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. / In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 6:23

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 13:13–16, 19

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ / In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. / For this people’s heart has grown 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.’

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 15:14

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 16:3

and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

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Blindness: Spiritual Matthew 23:16–24, 26

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ / You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? / And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’

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Blindness: Spiritual Mark 4:11, 12, 15

He replied, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside everything is expressed in parables, / so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’” / Some are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

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Blindness: Spiritual Mark 6:52

for they had not understood about the loaves, but their hearts had been hardened.

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Blindness: Spiritual Mark 7:18

“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

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Blindness: Spiritual Mark 12:24

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 8:10, 12

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, ‘though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’ / The seeds along the path are those who hear, but the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 12:48, 57

But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded. / And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 19:42

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

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Blindness: Spiritual Luke 23:34

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 1:5, 10

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. / He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 3:4, 7, 9–12, 19, 20, 31

“How can a man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time to be born?” / Do not be amazed that I said, ‘You must be born again.’ / “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 4:10, 11, 15, 22

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” / “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? / The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

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Blindness: Spiritual John 6:52, 60

At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” / On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

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Blindness: Spiritual John 7:28

Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,

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Blindness: Spiritual John 8:12, 15, 19, 27, 33, 42, 43, 52, 54, 55, 57

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” / You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. / “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”

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Blindness: Spiritual John 9:29–39

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.” / “That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes. / We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 12:38–41

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” / For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says: / “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

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Blindness: Spiritual John 14:17

the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 15:21

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 16:2, 3

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. / They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

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Blindness: Spiritual John 17:25

Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

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Blindness: Spiritual Acts 3:17

And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

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Blindness: Spiritual Acts 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

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Blindness: Spiritual Acts 17:23

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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Blindness: Spiritual Acts 19:2

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

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Blindness: Spiritual Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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Blindness: Spiritual Romans 1:19–22

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. / For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. / For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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Blindness: Spiritual Romans 2:4

Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

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Blindness: Spiritual Romans 11:25

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

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Blindness: Spiritual 1 Corinthians 1:18, 20, 21

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. / Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? / For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

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Blindness: Spiritual 1 Corinthians 2:8, 14, 15

None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. / The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. / The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

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Blindness: Spiritual 1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

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Blindness: Spiritual 2 Corinthians 3:14, 15

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed. / And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

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Blindness: Spiritual 2 Corinthians 4:3, 4, 6

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. / The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. / For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Blindness: Spiritual Galatians 4:8

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

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Blindness: Spiritual Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

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Blindness: Spiritual Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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Blindness: Spiritual Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

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