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Romans 8:7-8
For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.
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John 5:43
For I have come to you in my Father’s name, and you have rejected me. Yet if others come in their own name, you gladly welcome them.
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John 7:17
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.
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John 12:39-40
But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,“ The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.”
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John 6:60
Many of his disciples said,“ This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”
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Jeremiah 6:10
To whom can I give warning? Who will listen when I speak? Their ears are closed, and they cannot hear. They scorn the word of the Lord. They don’t want to listen at all.
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John 8:27
But they still didn’t understand that he was talking about his Father.
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Hosea 14:9
Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the Lord are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.
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Acts 7:51
“ You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? That’s what your ancestors did, and so do you!
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Proverbs 28:5
Evil people don’t understand justice, but those who follow the Lord understand completely.
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Isaiah 44:18
Such stupidity and ignorance! Their eyes are closed, and they cannot see. Their minds are shut, and they cannot think.
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Micah 4:12
But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.
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Isaiah 6:9
And he said,“ Yes, go, and say to this people,‘ Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’
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Romans 3:11
No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God.