Bible Cross References
the deaf
Isaiah 29:10-12
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The LORD has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.
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The meaning of every prophetic vision will be hidden from you; it will be like a sealed scroll. If you take it to someone who knows how to read and ask him to read it to you, he will say he can't because it is sealed.
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If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.
Isaiah 29:24-12
Isaiah 35:5
The blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.
Isaiah 42:16-18
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"I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. These are my promises, and I will keep them without fail.
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All who trust in idols, who call images their gods, will be humiliated and disgraced."
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The LORD says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
Deuteronomy 29:4
But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law.
Proverbs 20:12
The LORD has given us eyes to see with and ears to listen with.
Jeremiah 31:33
The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34
None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the LORD, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Matthew 11:5
the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.
Matthew 13:14-16
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So the prophecy of Isaiah applies to them: 'This people will listen and listen, but not understand; they will look and look, but not see,
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because their minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.'
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"As for you, how fortunate you are! Your eyes see and your ears hear.
Matthew 16:17
"Good for you, Simon son of John!" answered Jesus. "For this truth did not come to you from any human being, but it was given to you directly by my Father in heaven.
Mark 7:37
And all who heard were completely amazed. "How well he does everything!" they exclaimed. "He even causes the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak!"
Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed
Luke 7:22
He answered John's messengers, "Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf can hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.
John 6:45
The prophets wrote, 'Everyone will be taught by God.' Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me.
Acts 26:18
You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'
2 Corinthians 3:14-18
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Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.
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Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.
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But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord."
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Now, "the Lord" in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
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All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.
2 Corinthians 4:2-6
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We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.
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For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.
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They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
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For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
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The God who said, "Out of darkness the light shall shine!" is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts, to bring us the knowledge of God's glory shining in the face of Christ.
Ephesians 1:17-19
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and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
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I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,
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and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
Ephesians 5:14
for anything that is clearly revealed becomes light. That is why it is said, "Wake up, sleeper, and rise from death, and Christ will shine on you."
1 Peter 2:9
But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.
Revelation 3:18
I advise you, then, to buy gold from me, pure gold, in order to be rich. Buy also white clothing to dress yourself and cover up your shameful nakedness. Buy also some ointment to put on your eyes, so that you may see.