Jeremiah 6:10
To whom shall I (Jeremiah) speak and give warning
That they may hear?
Behold, their ears are
And they cannot listen.
Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reprimand and an object of scorn to them;
They have no delight in it.
Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they did not listen to Me and obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but stiffened their neck; they did more evil and behaved worse than their fathers.
Exodus 6:12
But Moses said to the Lord, “Look, [my own people] the Israelites have not listened to me; so how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am
Isaiah 53:1
And to whom [if not us] has the arm and infinite power of the Lord been revealed?
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart and mind to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
Psalm 40:8
“I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my heart.”
Psalm 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
Psalm 119:24
Your testimonies also are my delight
And my counselors.
Psalm 119:35
Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.
Psalm 119:70
Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.
Psalm 119:77
Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:174
I long for Your salvation, O Lord,
And Your law is my delight.
Isaiah 6:9-10
And He said, “Go, and tell this people:
Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.’
Isaiah 28:9-13
They say “To whom would He teach knowledge?
And to whom would He explain the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
Isaiah 42:23-25
Who among you will listen to this?
Who will listen and pay attention in the time to come?
Jeremiah 4:4
“Circumcise (dedicate, sanctify) yourselves to the Lord
And remove the foreskin [sins] of your heart,
Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Or else My wrath will go forth like fire [consuming all that gets in its way]
And burn and there will be no one to quench it,
Because of the evil of your acts.”
Jeremiah 5:4-5
Then I said, “[Surely] these are only the poor (uneducated);
They are [sinfully] foolish and have no [spiritual] understanding,
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God [and the requirements of His just and righteous law].
Jeremiah 20:8-9
For whenever I speak, I must shout out;
I shout violence and destruction,
Because the word of the Lord has become to me
A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.
Ezekiel 3:18-21
When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to tell him to turn from his wicked way to save his life, that same evil man will die in his sin, but you will be responsible for his blood.
Ezekiel 33:3
and he sees the sword coming on the land, and he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
Ezekiel 33:9
But if you on your part warn the wicked man to turn from his [evil] way and he does not turn from his [evil] way, he will die in his sin; but you have saved your life.
Amos 7:10
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel [site of the golden calf shrine], sent word to
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the
Luke 11:45
One of the lawyers [an expert in the Mosaic Law] answered Him, “Teacher, by saying this, You insult us too!”
Luke 20:19
The scribes and the chief priests tried to [find a way to] arrest Him at that very hour, but they were afraid of the people; because they understood that He spoke this parable against them.
John 7:7
John 9:40
Some Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “Are we also blind?”
Acts 7:60
Then falling on his knees [in worship], he cried out loudly, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them [do not charge them]!” When he had said this, he fell asleep [in death].
Romans 7:22
For I joyfully delight in the law of God in my inner self [with my new nature],
Colossians 1:28
We proclaim Him, warning and instructing everyone in all wisdom [that is, with comprehensive insight into the word and purposes of God], so that we may present every person complete in Christ [mature, fully trained, and perfect in Him—the Anointed].
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
Hebrews 11:7
By faith [with confidence in God and His word] Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this [act of obedience] he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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To whom
The word
Delight
Bible References
To whom
Then I said, “[Surely] these are only the poor (uneducated);
They are [sinfully] foolish and have no [spiritual] understanding,
For they do not know the way of the Lord
Or the ordinance of their God [and the requirements of His just and righteous law].
They say “To whom would He teach knowledge?
And to whom would He explain the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
And to whom [if not us] has the arm and infinite power of the Lord been revealed?
Give
Their ear
“Circumcise (dedicate, sanctify) yourselves to the Lord
And remove the foreskin [sins] of your heart,
Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Or else My wrath will go forth like fire [consuming all that gets in its way]
And burn and there will be no one to quench it,
Because of the evil of your acts.”
Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.’
Who among you will listen to this?
Who will listen and pay attention in the time to come?
The word
For whenever I speak, I must shout out;
I shout violence and destruction,
Because the word of the Lord has become to me
A reprimand and a mockery and has brought me insult all day long.
Delight
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
“I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your law is within my heart.”
I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.