33 Bible Verses about Dullness

A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand.

No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.

Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot hear because they are rebellious people.

You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven but how is it that you do not know how to interpret this time?

Why do you not understand what I say? Can you not hear me?

There is no one who has insight. No one seeks God!

We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing (slow to learn).

The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.'

We have many things to say about him and it is hard to explain it to you, for you are dull of hearing (slow to learn). At this time you should be teachers. But you need someone to teach you again from the beginning the elementary truths from the Word of God. You need milk, not solid food. Everyone who drinks milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.

These people have closed their mind and are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that their eyes never see. Their ears never hear. Their minds never understand. They never turn to me for healing.'

Wicked people do not know or understand anything. As they walk around in the dark, all the foundations of the earth shake.

They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.

I speak to them in illustrations (stories) (parables) (allegories), because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear. They just do not understand.

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.

My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders. They did not remember your abundant kindnesses. But they rebelled by the Red Sea.

The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For they have no understanding (discernment). Their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

His message is like a sealed book to you. You say to someone read this out loud. And they respond, We cannot read it, because it is sealed.

My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.

He replied: Are you, like them, without wisdom?

Why do you not understand I was not talking about bread? Instead, about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

They did not understand what he said. The meaning was concealed from them. They could not comprehend it. And they were afraid to ask him about it.

They did not understand for the meaning was hidden from them. They could not perceive the things he said.

He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus responded: Have I been with you so long a time and you do not know me Philip? He who has seen me has discerned (experienced) (perceived) the Father. And you say, show us the Father?

The Jews responded: It took forty-six years to build this temple and you will raise it up in three days?

Nicodemus asked: How could a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb again and be born?

The woman said to him: Sir, you do not have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

He said: I have food to eat that you do not know about. So the disciples said to each other: Has any man brought him something to eat?

The disciples said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he would recover. Jesus spoke of his death. They thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any man eats of this bread he will live forever. Yes and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. The Jews argued with one another saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?