Romans 9:18
So, then, where God wills, he takes pity, and where he wills, he hardens the heart.
John 12:40
'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'
Romans 1:28
Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.
Romans 11:8-10
The rest grew callous; as Scripture says--'God has given them a deadness of mind--eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear--and it is so to this very day.'
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the latter we are an odor which arises from death and tells of Death; to the former an odor which arises from life and tells of Life. But who is equal to such a task?
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.
1 Peter 2:8
and 'a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.' They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.