Bible Cross References
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Isaiah 6:9
So he told me to go and give the people this message: "No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening."
Isaiah 42:18-20
18
The LORD says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
19
Is anyone more blind than my servant, more deaf than the messenger I send?
20
Israel, you have seen so much, but what has it meant to you? You have ears to hear with, but what have you really heard?"
Isaiah 44:18-20
18
Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
19
The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, "Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!"
20
It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.
Deuteronomy 29:2-4
2
Moses called together all the people of Israel and said to them, "You saw for yourselves what the LORD did to the king of Egypt, to his officials, and to his entire country.
3
You saw the terrible plagues, the miracles, and the great wonders that the LORD performed.
4
But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.
Jeremiah 5:21
Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.
Ezekiel 12:2
"Mortal man," he said, "you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they see nothing; they have ears, but they hear nothing, because they are rebellious.
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
4
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.
5
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.