33 Bible Verses about Dullness

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?

Son of man, thou art dwelling in the midst of a house of contradiction, which to them eyes to see, and they saw not: ears to them to hear, and they heard not: for they are a house of contradiction.

O hypocrites, ye know to judge the face of the earth and of heaven; and how do ye not judge this time?

Wherefore ye know not my speech, for ye cannot hear my word.

There is none understanding, there is none seeking God.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing.

For the heart of this people has been thickened, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes have they closed; lest perhaps they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them.

Of whom great is the word to us, and difficult of interpretation to speak, since ye have been sluggish in the hearing. For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food. For every one partaking of milk is inexperienced in the word of justice: for he is a child.read more.
And firm food is of the perfected, of them by habit having the senses exercised for the separation of good and evil.

For the heart of this people was thickened, and with ears heard they heavily, and their eyes they closed; lest they should see with the eyes, and with ears should hear, and with the heart they should understand, and turn back, and I should heal them.

They will not know, they will not Understand: they will go about in darkness: all the foundations of the earth will be moved.

And they knew not the purposes of Jehovah, and they understood not his counsel for he gathered them as sheaves of the threshing-floor.

For this I speak to them in parables: for seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless:

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

For they a nation destroying counsels, And no understanding in them.

Our fathers considered not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; they embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge;

. The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.

And the vision of all will be to you as the words of the book being sealed, which they shall give to him, to him knowing writing, saying, Read now, this: and he said, I shall not be able, for it was sealed.

For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet destitute of understanding?

How do ye not understand that I spake not to you concerning bread, to keep from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

And they knew not this word, and it was hid from them, lest they should understand it: and they feared to ask him concerning this word.

And they understood nothing of these things: and this word was hidden from them, and they discerned not the things spoken.

And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:

Jesus says, to him, So long time am I with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? he having seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?,

Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born, being an old man? he cannot come in a second time to his mother's belly, and be born.

The woman says to him, Lord, thou hest no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?

And he said to them, I have food to eat which ye know not. Then said the disciples to one another, Has any one brought him to eat?

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he has been set to sleep, he shall be saved. And Jesus spake of his death: but these supposed that he speaks of the repose of sleep.

I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. Then the Jews contended with one another, saying, How can he give us the flesh to eat