Romans 3:11

No one truly understands God or genuinely seeks him on their own. This shows that even our minds and desires are darkened by sin.

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• Ps 14:2–4The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Ps 53:2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
• Rom 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
• Hos 7:10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
• Isa 31:1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Isa 65:1I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
• Isa 55:6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Matt 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Prov 1:29–30For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
• Prov 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Isa 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
• Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Matt 13:13–14Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
• Rom 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Ps 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Isa 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Job 21:15–16What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
• Ps 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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