Blindness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Amos 9:10 OT

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

• Micah 4:12 OT

  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.

• Matthew 5:15 NT

  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 NT

  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 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!

• Matthew 13:13-16 NT

  Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way…

• Matthew 13:19 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

  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 22:29 NT

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

• Matthew 23:16-24 NT

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

• 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.

• Mark 4:11 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

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

• Mark 7:18 NT

  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 12:24 NT

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

• Luke 4:18 NT

  “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…

• Luke 8:10 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

  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 NT

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