Matthew 23:13
But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.
Matthew 23:16
Alas for you, you blind guides! You say 'if any answer by the Temple, his oath counts for nothing; but, if any one swears by the gold of the Temple, his oath is binding him'!
Luke 11:42-52
But alas for you Pharisees! You pay tithes on mint, rue, and herbs of all kinds, and pass over justice and love to God. These last you ought to have put into practice without neglecting the first.
John 9:39
And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."
John 10:12-13
The hired man who is not a shepherd, and who does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, leaves them and runs away; then the wolf seizes them, and scatters the flock.
John 12:40
'He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their mind, so that they should not see with their eyes, and perceive with their mind, and turn--And I should heal them.'
Romans 11:7
What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.
1 Corinthians 8:4
With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols-we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
What do I mean? you ask. Than an offering made to an idol, or the idol itself, is anything?