8 Bible Verses about Refusing To Hear

But they uttered a great shout and stopped their ears, and they rushed upon him all together,

I have much to say to you about this, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, because you have become so slow of apprehension.

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!" '

The rest became callous; as the Scripture says, "God has thrown them into a state of spiritual insensibility, with eyes that cannot see and cars that cannot hear, that has lasted down to this day."

and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after fictions.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

For this nation's mind has grown dull, And they hear faintly with their ears, And they have shut their eyes, So as never to see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their minds, and turn back, And let me cure them!'

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"