32 Bible Verses about Being Without Understanding

You see many things, but do not pay attention. Your ears are open, but not any hears.

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

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not; nor do they understand.

And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which said, "By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive;

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

saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.

And He said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to others I speak in parables, so that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.

for this people's heart has become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them.

And Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding?

And He said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters into the man from outside cannot defile him,

And knowing it, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason that it is because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Have you still hardened your heart?

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

O your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He had no understanding?

But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways.

I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate, nor your wives when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. The people who do not understand are thrown down.

Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Therefore they said, What is this that He says, A little while? We do not know what He is saying.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!

For we do not dare to rank or compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves. But they, measuring themselves among themselves, and comparing themselves to themselves, are not perceptive.

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained since you are dull of hearing.

Do you have eyes and do not see? Do you have ears and do not hear? And do you not remember?

And He said to them, How do you not understand?

Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?

desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say nor that which they affirm.