Romans 9:18
Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.
Matthew 13:14-15
In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.
Acts 28:26-28
when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'
Romans 1:24-28
So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.
Romans 5:20-21
Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,
Romans 9:15-16
God says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I choose to have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I choose to have compassion.
Romans 11:7-8
Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.
Ephesians 1:6
redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.