For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
Parallel translations
- KJV Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
- BSB For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
- NKJV Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
- NASB For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,
- NLT But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,
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- Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
- 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
- John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
- John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
- John 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
- Isa 44:18–20They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
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