Matthew 13:13-14
This is why I speak to them in figures, because though they look they do not see, and though they listen they do not hear or understand.
Mark 4:12
so that " 'They may look and look and yet not see, And listen and listen and yet not understand, Lest possibly they should turn and be forgiven.' ",
Luke 8:10
And he said, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God, but they are given to others in the form of figures, so that they may look and yet not see, and hear and yet not understand.
John 9:39-41
And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."
John 12:40
"He has made their eyes blind and their minds dull, To keep them from seeing with their eyes, and understanding with their minds, And turning to me to be cured."
Mark 8:17-18
And he noticed it and said to them, "Why do you discuss your being without bread? Do you not yet see nor understand? Are your minds so dull?
Acts 7:51-52
You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did!
Acts 28:26-27
" 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see!
Romans 11:7-8
What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.
2 Corinthians 3:14
Their minds were dulled. For to this day, that same veil remains unlifted, when they read the old agreement, for only through union with Christ is it removed.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
If the meaning of my preaching of the good news is veiled at all, it is so only in the case of those who are on the way to destruction.
Ephesians 4:18
They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,
2 Thessalonians 2:10-11
and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved.