22 Bible Verses about Dullness
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Hypocrites! You know how to distinguish the appearance of the earth and sky, and how do you not distinguish this time?
Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing.
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.
Concerning whom we have much to say, and that which is difficult to explain, because you have become dull of hearing. For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;read more.
but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.
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.
For this reason I speak to them in parables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.
Why do you not understand that I spoke to you not of bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
But they understood not this saying; and it was concealed from them, that they might not perceive it; and they feared to ask him concerning this saying.
And they understood nothing of these things; and this word was concealed from them, and they did not perceive what was said.
And he said to them, O foolish men, and of a mind slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?
Then the Jews said to him, Forty-six years was this temple being built, and will you raise it in three days?
Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an unborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born?
The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence then have you the living water?
But he said to them, I have food to eat which you know not of. Then the disciples said one to another, Has any one brought him food to eat?
Then they said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep he will recover. But Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of the rest of sleep.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. Then the Jews contended one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
From Thematic Bible
Dullness » Condemned
Hypocrites! You know how to distinguish the appearance of the earth and sky, and how do you not distinguish this time?
Dullness » Of israel
Dullness » General examples of
For this reason I speak to them in parables; because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.
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.
Dullness » Of the disciples
Why do you not understand that I spoke to you not of bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
And he said to them, O foolish men, and of a mind slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken.
Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?
But they understood not this saying; and it was concealed from them, that they might not perceive it; and they feared to ask him concerning this saying.