BLINDNESS

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 19:11

  They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 48:10

  Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

• Exodus 5:2

  Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

• Leviticus 21:18

  For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

• Leviticus 22:22

  Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 15:21

  If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 28:28

  Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.

• Deuteronomy 29:4

  But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

• Deuteronomy 32:28

  For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

• Deuteronomy 32:29

  Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

• Judges 16:20

  She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

• 1 Samuel 4:15

  Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

• 1 Kings 14:4

  Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

• 2 Kings 6:18

  When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.

• 2 Kings 6:19

  Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” He led them to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:20

  When they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, “Yahweh, open these men’s eyes, that they may see.” Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the middle of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 6:21

  The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

• 2 Kings 6:22

  He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.”

• 2 Kings 6:23

  He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

• Job 21:14

  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

• Job 22:13

  You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

• Job 22:14

  Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

• Psalms 10:5

  His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

• Psalms 10:6

  He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

• Psalms 14:1

  For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

• Psalms 14:4

  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

• Psalms 73:2

  But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:4

  For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

• Psalms 73:5

  They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

• Psalms 73:7

  Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

• Psalms 73:8

  They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

• Psalms 73:9

  They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

• Psalms 73:10

  Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

• Psalms 73:11

  They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

• Psalms 73:12

  Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

• Psalms 73:13

  Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

• Psalms 73:14

  For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

• Psalms 73:15

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Psalms 73:16

  When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

• Psalms 73:20

  As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

• Psalms 73:21

  For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

• Psalms 73:22

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Psalms 73:23

  Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

• Psalms 73:24

  You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

• Psalms 73:25

  Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

• Psalms 73:26

  My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

• Psalms 73:27

  For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

• Psalms 73:28

  But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

• Psalms 79:6

  Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

• Psalms 82:5

  They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

• Psalms 92:6

  A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

• Psalms 94:7

  They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

• Psalms 94:8

  Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

• Psalms 95:10

  Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

• Psalms 119:18

  Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

• Proverbs 1:22

  “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 1:29

  because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

• Proverbs 1:30

  They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

• Proverbs 4:19

  The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

• Proverbs 7:7

  I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

• Proverbs 7:8

  passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

• Proverbs 7:10

  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

• Proverbs 7:12

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

• Proverbs 7:13

  So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

• Proverbs 7:14

  “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

• Proverbs 7:15

  Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Proverbs 7:17

  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

• Proverbs 7:18

  Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

• Proverbs 7:19

  For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

• Proverbs 7:20

  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

• Proverbs 7:21

  With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

• Proverbs 7:22

  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

• Proverbs 7:23

  Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

• Proverbs 10:21

  The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

• Proverbs 13:18

  Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

• Proverbs 14:12

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Proverbs 17:16

  Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

• Proverbs 19:2

  It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

• Proverbs 19:3

  The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

• Proverbs 28:5

  Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

• Ecclesiastes 7:25

  I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

• Isaiah 1:3

  The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”

• Isaiah 5:13

  Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

• Isaiah 5:20

  Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

• Isaiah 6:9

  He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

• Isaiah 6:10

  Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

• Isaiah 9:2

  The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

• Isaiah 26:10

  Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

• Isaiah 26:11

  Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

• Isaiah 27:11

  When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

• Isaiah 28:13

  Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

• Isaiah 28:15

  “Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

• Isaiah 29:10

  For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

• Isaiah 29:11

  All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed:”

• Isaiah 29:12

  and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please”; and he says, “I can’t read.”

• Isaiah 40:21

  Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard, yet? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

• Isaiah 40:27

  Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

• Isaiah 40:28

  Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

• Isaiah 42:6

  “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;

• Isaiah 42:7

  to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

• Isaiah 42:18

  “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

• Isaiah 42:19

  Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

• Isaiah 42:20

  You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

• Isaiah 44:18

  They 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.

• Isaiah 44:19

  No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

• Isaiah 44:20

  He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

• Isaiah 48:8

  Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

• Isaiah 53:1

  Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?

• Isaiah 56:10

  His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

• Isaiah 60:2

  For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

• Jeremiah 2:8

  The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.

• Jeremiah 4:22

  “For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

• Jeremiah 5:4

  Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

• Jeremiah 5:5

  I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

• Jeremiah 5:21

  ‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:

• Jeremiah 8:7

  Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

• Jeremiah 8:8

  “‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.

• Jeremiah 8:9

  The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

• Jeremiah 9:3

  “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:6

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 16:10

  It shall happen, when you shall show this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

• Jeremiah 17:9

  The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Ezekiel 12:2

  “Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

• Daniel 12:10

  Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

• Hosea 4:1

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:6

  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

• Hosea 4:14

  I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

• Hosea 5:4

  Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

• Hosea 7:11

  “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

• Amos 9:10

  All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’

• Micah 4:12

  But 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.

• Malachi 1:8

  When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Matthew 5:15

  Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 5:16

  Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 6:23

  But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

• Matthew 9:27

  As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”

• Matthew 9:28

  When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

• Matthew 9:29

  Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

• Matthew 9:30

  Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”

• Matthew 11:5

  the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

• Matthew 12:22

  Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

• Matthew 13:13

  Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

• Matthew 13:14

  In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

• Matthew 13:15

  for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

• Matthew 13:16

  “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

• Matthew 13:19

  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

• Matthew 16:3

  In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

• Matthew 20:30

  Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

• Matthew 20:31

  The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

• Matthew 20:32

  Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”

• Matthew 20:33

  They told him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”

• Matthew 20:34

  Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

• Matthew 21:14

  The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

• Matthew 22:29

  But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

• Matthew 23:16

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

• Matthew 23:17

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:20

  He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

• Matthew 23:21

  He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

• Matthew 23:22

  He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

• Matthew 23:23

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Matthew 23:24

  You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

• Matthew 23:26

  You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

• Mark 4:11

  He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

• Mark 4:12

  that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’”

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 6:52

  for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

• Mark 7:18

  He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

• Mark 8:22

  He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him, and begged him to touch him.

• Mark 8:23

  He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

• Mark 8:24

  He looked up, and said, “I see men; for I see them like trees walking.”

• Mark 8:25

  Then again he laid his hands on his eyes. He looked intently, and was restored, and saw everyone clearly.

• Mark 10:46

  They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

• Mark 10:47

  When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

• Mark 10:48

  Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

• Mark 10:49

  Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

• Mark 10:50

  He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

• Mark 10:51

  Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Rabboni, that I may see again.”

• Mark 10:52

  Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

• Mark 12:24

  Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

• Luke 4:18

  “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

• Luke 8:10

  He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

• Luke 8:12

  Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

• Luke 12:48

  but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

• Luke 12:57

  Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

• Luke 19:42

  saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

• Luke 23:34

  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

• John 1:5

  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

• John 1:10

  He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

• John 3:4

  Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

• John 3:7

  Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

• John 3:9

  Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

• John 3:10

  Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

• John 3:11

  Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

• John 3:12

  If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

• John 3:19

  This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

• John 3:20

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• John 3:31

  He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

• John 4:10

  Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

• John 4:11

  The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

• John 4:15

  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

• John 4:22

  You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

• John 6:52

  The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

• John 6:60

  Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

• John 7:28

  Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

• John 8:12

  Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

• John 8:15

  You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

• John 8:19

  They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

• John 8:27

  They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

• John 8:33

  They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

• John 8:42

  Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

• John 8:43

  Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

• John 8:52

  Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

• John 8:54

  Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

• John 9:1

  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

• John 9:2

  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

• John 9:3

  Jesus answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

• John 9:4

  I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

• John 9:5

  While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

• John 9:6

  When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

• John 9:7

  and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

• John 9:29

  We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

• John 9:30

  The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

• John 9:31

  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

• John 9:32

  Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

• John 9:33

  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

• John 9:34

  They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.

• John 9:35

  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

• John 9:36

  He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

• John 9:37

  Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

• John 9:38

  He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.

• John 9:39

  Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

• John 12:38

  that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

• John 12:39

  For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,

• John 12:40

  “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

• John 12:41

  Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

• John 14:17

  the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

• John 15:21

  But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• John 16:3

  They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

• John 17:25

  Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

• Acts 3:17

  “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

• Acts 9:8

  Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

• Acts 9:9

  He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

• Acts 13:11

  Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

• Acts 13:27

  For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 17:23

  For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

• Acts 19:2

  He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 26:18

  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

• Romans 1:19

  because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

• Romans 1:20

  For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

• Romans 1:21

  Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 1:22

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Romans 2:4

  Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

• Romans 11:25

  For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

• 1 Corinthians 1:18

  For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

• 1 Corinthians 1:20

  Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

• 1 Corinthians 1:21

  For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

• 1 Corinthians 2:14

  Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

• 1 Corinthians 2:15

  But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

• 1 Corinthians 15:34

  Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

• 2 Corinthians 3:14

  But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

• 2 Corinthians 3:15

  But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

• 2 Corinthians 4:3

  Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

• 2 Corinthians 4:6

  seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

• Galatians 4:8

  However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

• Ephesians 4:18

  being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

• Ephesians 5:8

  For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

• Colossians 1:13

  who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:4

  that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:5

  not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

• 1 Thessalonians 5:4

  But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5

  You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:6

  so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:7

  For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:8

  giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

• 2 Thessalonians 2:1

  Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

• 2 Thessalonians 2:12

  that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

• 2 Timothy 3:7

  always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• Titus 1:16

  They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

• Hebrews 5:11

  About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

• Hebrews 5:12

  For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

• 1 Peter 1:14

  as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

• 1 Peter 2:9

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

• 2 Peter 1:9

  For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.