32 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

who sees many things and does not warn; who opens his ears and does not hear.

Make the heart of this people fat and make their ears heavy and blind their eyes that they not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their heart, nor convert and there be healing for him.

Therefore, I speak to them in parables because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Then he said, Go and tell this people, Hear indeed, but do not understand; and see indeed, but do not perceive.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive;

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.

saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive;

And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.

for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted, and I should heal them.

He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them.

For they are a Gentile void of counsel, neither is there any intelligence in them.

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

And he said unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not understand that anything from outside that enters into the man cannot defile him?

And as Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why argue ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not consider nor understand? is your heart yet blind?

And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.

Surely your subversion shall be as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He did not make me? or shall the vessel say of him that made it, He did not understand?

but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; furthermore, thou hast praised gods of silver and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand is thy soul and whose are all thy ways, thou hast never honoured.

I will not visit upon your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor upon your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery: for they offer with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes; therefore the people without understanding shall fall.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while? we cannot understand what he says.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

For we dare not mix ourselves in with or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, but they do not understand that they are measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves.

there is no one that understands; there is no one that seeks after God.

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not have understanding.

They did not know nor understand; for he has anointed their eyes that they not see and their hearts that they not understand.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

Of whom we have many things to say and difficult to declare, seeing ye are hard of hearing.

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not yet understand?

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a teacher of Israel and knowest not this?

desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor from where they affirm.