Bible Cross References
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Exodus 4:11
The LORD said to him, "Who gives man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? It is I, the LORD.
Job 33:16
He makes them listen to what he says, and they are frightened at his warnings.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law.
Isaiah 29:10-12
10
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.
11
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.
12
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 29:18-12
Isaiah 29:19-12
Acts 16:14
One of those who heard us was Lydia from Thyatira, who was a dealer in purple cloth. She was a woman who worshiped God, and the Lord opened her mind to pay attention to what Paul was saying.
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
14
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.
15
Even today, whenever they read the Law of Moses, the veil still covers their minds.
16
But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord."
17
Now, "the Lord" in this passage is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
18
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 4:4-6
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.
6
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 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."
Revelation 3:7
"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is the message from the one who is holy and true. He has the key that belonged to David, and when he opens a door, no one can close it, and when he closes it, no one can open it.