33 Bible Verses about Dullness

A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

And none taketh it to heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire, and have also baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh, and eaten it, and with the rest thereof shall I make an abomination? shall I bow down to a block of wood?

Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not, which have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.

Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how is it then that ye do not discern this time?

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;read more.
but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them together as the sheaves into the threshing-floor.

For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;

void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.

And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

But he said, Are ye also still without intelligence?

How do ye not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them that they should not perceive it. And they feared to ask him concerning this saying.

And they understood nothing of these things. And this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what was said.

And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?

The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days?

Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?

The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know. The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him anything to eat?

The disciples therefore said to him, Lord, if he be fallen asleep, he will get well. But Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.

I am the living bread which has come down out of heaven: if any one shall have eaten of this bread he shall live for ever; but the bread withal which I shall give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?