John 8:43

The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me. ⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

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Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Isaiah 6:9

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 44:18

Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.

Hosea 14:9

Let whoever is wise understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the Lord’s intentions
or understand His plan,
that He has gathered them
like sheaves to the threshing floor.

John 5:43

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 6:60

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

John 8:27

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

John 12:39-40

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

Romans 3:11

There is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.

Romans 8:7-8

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.