33 Bible Verses about Dullness

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

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

Son of man, thou dwellest 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.

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky, and of the earth; but how is it, that ye do not discern this time?

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

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh God.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

For this people's heart is 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 be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need of one to teach you again which are the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong food. For every one that useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.read more.
But strong food belongeth 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 become gross, 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 will gather them as sheaves into the floor.

Therefore I speak to them in parables: because they seeing 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 thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth 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 is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

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

And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

How is it that ye do not understand that I spoke not to you concerning bread, that ye 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 concerning 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 to them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus saith to him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? he that hath seen me, hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

Nicodemus saith to 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 saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?

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

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