Blindness, Spiritual

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• John 1:5 NT

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:14 NT

  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.

• Isaiah 29:10 OT

  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.

• Matthew 6:23 NT

  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!

• John 3:19 NT

  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 NT

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

• Romans 11:8 NT

  According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:3 NT

  Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

• 2 Corinthians 4:4 NT

  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.

• 1 John 2:9 NT

  He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

• 1 John 2:11 NT

  But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

• Ephesians 4:17-19 NT

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance…

• 1 John 1:6 NT

  If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

• 1 John 1:7 NT

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

• Matthew 15:14 NT

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

• Psalms 82:5 OT

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

• Jeremiah 5:21 OT

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

• Matthew 23:19 NT

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

• Matthew 23:26 NT

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

• Revelation 3:17 NT

  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

• Isaiah 26:11 OT

  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.

• Romans 1:19-21 NT

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

• Psalms 69:23 OT

  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

• Isaiah 44:18 OT

  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.