Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
That seeing
Be converted
General references
Bible References
That seeing
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Isaiah 6:9
And He replied:
Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.
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.
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes
and their minds so they cannot understand.
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear this,
you foolish and senseless people.
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
you foolish and senseless
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
Matthew 13:14 Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.
Luke 8:10
So He said, “The secrets of the kingdom of God have been given for you to know, but to the rest it is in parables, so that
Looking they may not see,
and hearing they may not understand.
John 12:37
Even though He had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him.
Acts 28:25
Disagreeing among themselves, they began to leave after Paul made one statement: “The Holy Spirit correctly spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors
Romans 11:8
as it is written:
God gave them a spirit of insensitivity,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.
Be converted
Jeremiah 31:18 I have heard Ephraim moaning,
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.
“You disciplined me, and I have been disciplined
like an untrained calf.
Restore me, and I will return,
for you, Lord, are my God.
Ezekiel 18:27
But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.
Acts 3:19
Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
2 Timothy 2:25
instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 6:6
and who have fallen away, because, to their own harm, they are recrucifying the Son of God and holding Him up to contempt.
General references
Proverbs 28:5 Evil men do not understand justice,
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.
but those who seek the Lord understand everything.