21 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

Therefore I speak to them in parables: that seeing, they may not see; and hearing, they may not hear nor understand.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, With the hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and in no wise perceive:

That seeing they may see, yet not perceive; and hearing may hear, yet not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them.

saying, Go to this people, and say, "In hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, yet in nowise perceive.

And he said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables: that seeing they may not perceive, and hearing may not comprehend.

for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with the eves, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and with their ears they are thick of hearing, and their eyes have they shut; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and become converts, and I should heal them."

And Jesus said, Are ye also to this time destitute of intelligence?

And he saith to them, Are ye also so defective of intelligence? Do you not consider, that every thing from without that entereth into a man, cannot make him unclean?

And Jesus knowing it said unto them, Why reason ye together, because ye have no loaves? Do ye not yet consider, nor understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?

They said therefore, What is this which he saith, This little while? we know not what he means.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and how incomprehensible his ways!

For we will not presume to put ourselves on the level, or compare ourselves with some who vaunt themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, have no understanding.

there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

Concerning whom we have much to discourse, and of difficult interpretation to explain, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

Jesus answered and said to him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

affecting to be doctors of the law, though they underhand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.