Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
Parallel translations
- KJV Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
- BSB Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
- NKJV Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.
- NASB Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot listen to My word.
- NLT Why can’t you understand what I am saying? It’s because you can’t even hear me!
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- John 5:43I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
- John 12:39–40For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
- Prov 28:5Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
- John 6:60Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
- John 8:27They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
- Isa 44:18They 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.
- Isa 6:9He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
- Mic 4:12But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
- Rom 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
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