21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

For this reason I speak to them in parables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.

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

that seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not understand, lest at any time they should turn, and be forgiven.

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

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

for the hearts of this people have become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts, that they should not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should cure them.

for the heart of this people has become hard, and they hear imperfectly with their ears, and they have shut their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should cure them.

And he said, Are you so entirely without understanding?

And he said to them, Are you also so without understanding? Do you not understand that nothing which enters into a man from without can defile him,

And Jesus knowing it, said to them, Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart hardened?

They said therefore, What is this that he says, The little while? We do not know what he says.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how inscrutable are his judgments, and his ways can not be explored!

For we dare not judge or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves with themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise.

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks God;

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.

Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

And he said to them, Do you not yet understand?

Jesus answered and said to him, Are you a teacher of Israel and know not these things?

desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.