'Understand' in the Bible
Jesus answered him, "You're the teacher of Israel, and you can't understand this?
Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.
Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.
But if I'm doing them, even though you don't believe me, believe the actions, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."
At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.
"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."
Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."
If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!
For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
"Men of Judea and everyone living in Jerusalem! You must understand something, so pay close attention to my words. These men are not drunk as you suppose, for it's only nine o'clock in the morning.
"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"
you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.
He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn't understand.
So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"
He told them, "You understand how wrong it is for a Jew to associate or visit with unbelievers. But God has shown me that I should stop calling anyone common or unclean,
Then Peter began to speak: "Now I understand that God shows no partiality.
"Therefore, brothers, you must understand that through him the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,
"He told me, "I'm Jesus from Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.' The men who were with me saw the light but didn't understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.
You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
He said, "Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!
For this people's minds have become stupid, and their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes so that they may never see with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn and let me heal them."'
You must understand that this message about God's salvation has been sent to the gentiles, and they will listen."
I don't understand what I am doing. For I don't practice what I want to do, but instead do what I hate.
Again I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Moses was the first to say, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that doesn't understand."
Rather, as it is written, "Those who were never told about him will see, and those who have never heard will understand."
Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.
Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.
A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.
For what we are writing you is nothing more than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely,
you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep
Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
They want to be teachers of the Law, yet they do not understand either what they are talking about or the things about which they speak so confidently.
he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions,
Think about what I am saying. The Lord will help you to understand all these things.
We have much to say about this, but it is difficult to explain because you have become too lazy to understand.
By faith we understand that time was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.
You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,
These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,
First of all you must understand this: In the last days mockers will come and, following their own desires, will ridicule us
The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to repent.
He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.
Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct.
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