21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

I speak to them in figurative language for this reason, that while looking they do not see, and while hearing they neither hear nor understand.

And in regard to them the prophecy of Isaiah is receiving signal fulfilment: "'You will hear and hear and by no means understand, and you will look and look and by no means see.

that "'They may look and look but not see, and listen and listen but not understand, lest perchance they should return and be pardoned.'"

"'Go to this people and tell them, you will hear and hear, and by no means understand; and will look and look, and by no means see.

"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.

For this people's mind is stupefied, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might heal them.'

"He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their minds, and should turn, and I should heal them."

For this people's mind has grown callous, their hearing has become dull, and their eyes they have closed; to prevent their ever seeing with their eyes, or hearing with their ears, or understanding with their minds, and turning back, so that I might cure them.'

"Are even you," He answered, "still without intellingence?

"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

He perceived what they were saying, and He said to them, "What is this discussion of yours about having no bread? Do you not yet see and understand? Are your minds so dull of comprehension?

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His decrees or trace His footsteps!

For we have not the 'courage' to rank ourselves among, or compare ourselves with, certain persons distinguished by their self-commendation. Yet they are not wise, measuring themselves, as they do, by one another and comparing themselves with one another.

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.

Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.

You have eyes! can you not see? You have ears! can you not hear? and have you no memory?

"Do you not yet understand?" He said.

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

They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they do not understand either their own words or what the things are about which they make such confident assertions.