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.

And in them is being fulfilled that prophecy of Isaiah which says. "Hearing you will hear and not understand; Seeing you will see and not perceive;

so that, "for all their looking they may not see, and for all their hearing, they may not understand, lest perchance they should turn and be pardoned.

"Go to the people and tell them, You will hear and hear, and by no means understand; And will look, and by no means see.

He answered. "To you it is given to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of God; But all others are taught in parables so that seeing they shall not see, and hearing they shall not hear.

For the heart of his people is made fat, Their ears are dull of hearing; Their eyes, too, have they closed, Lest some day their eyes should perceive, And their ears should hear, And their heart should understand and turn, And I should heal them.

He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them.

For this people's heart is grown obtuse, Their ears are heavy of hearing, Their eyes have they closed, Lest they should see with their eyes And hear with their ears, Lest they understand with their heart, And turn again, and heal them.

He answered. "Are even you still without understanding?

"Are even you without understanding?" he said. "Do you not perceive that nothing whatever from without can defile a man by entering him,

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand?

So they kept asking. "What does that 'little while' mean of which he speaks? We do not know what he is talking about."

Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!

having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

Are your minds so slow to comprehend? You have eyes, do you not see? You have ears, do you not hear?

"Do you not yet understand?" he said.

"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.