John 8:43
How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.
John 7:17
If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.
John 5:43
I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.
John 6:60
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
John 8:27
They did not perceive that He was speaking to them of the Father.
John 12:39-40
For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah said again,
Acts 7:51
"O stiff-necked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you also are continually at strife with the Holy Spirit--just as your forefathers were.
Romans 3:11
There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.
Romans 8:7-8
Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.