21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

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.

so that for all their seeing they may not perceive, and for all their hearing they may not understand, lest they turn and be forgiven."

when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

He has blinded their eyes and made their hearts insensible, to prevent them seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and turning for me to cure them.

For the heart at this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy at hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

He said, "And are you totally ignorant?

He said to them, "So you do not understand, either? Do you not see how nothing outside a man can defile him by entering him?

He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart?

They said, "What is the meaning of 'In a little'? We do not understand what he is saying."

What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods!

I do not venture to class myself or to compare myself with certain exalted individuals! They belong to the class of self-praisers; while I limit myself to my own sphere, I compare myself with my own standard,

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear?

"Do you not understand now?" he said.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? ??you, a teacher in Israel!

doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.