32 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

You see many things, but don't comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear."

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

He said, "Go and tell these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: 'You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven."

when he said, 'Go to this people and say, "You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

He said, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them."'

They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

When he learned of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?

The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker, "He didn't make me"? Or should the pottery say about the potter, "He doesn't understand"?

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true: "A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!"

Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

So they kept on repeating, "What is the meaning of what he says, 'In a little while'? We do not understand what he is talking about."

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand."

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Though you have eyes, don't you see? And though you have ears, can't you hear? Don't you remember?

Then he said to them, "Do you still not understand?"

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.