21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand; and seeing you will see and not perceive.

so that 'seeing they may see but not perceive, and hearing may hear but not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven.'"

saying, 'Go to this people and say, "you will be ever hearing, but will never understand; and you will be ever seeing, but will never perceive.

he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others it is given in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

For this people's heart has grown dull. And 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 they understand with their hearts, and turn so that I should heal them.'

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

For this people's heart has become dull, and with their ears they scarcely hear, and their eyes they have closed; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'

So Jesus said, "Are you also still without understanding?

So he said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

Being aware of it, Jesus said to them, "Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?

They said, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is saying."

Oh, the depth of the riches and of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

For we do not dare to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

there is no one who understands, no one who seeks for God.

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to the hardness of their heart;

About this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

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

He said to them, "Do you not yet understand?"

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.