33 Bible Verses about Dullness

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon its coals; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? shall I fall down to a block of wood?

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

You hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?

Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to explain, seeing you are dull of hearing.

For this people's heart has become 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.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to explain, seeing you are dull of hearing. For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

For the heart of this people is stubborn, 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.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

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

Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your mercies; but rebelled against him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

And the vision of all has become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed:

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.

And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?

How is it that you do not understand that I spoke not to you concerning bread, that you should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him about that saying.

And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

Then he said unto them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long a time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? he that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the Father?

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?

Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

The woman said unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?

But he said unto them, I have food to eat that you know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, has any man brought him anything to eat?

Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleeps, he shall do well. However Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?