Closed Minds

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, — read the full passage →

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.’

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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,

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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.”

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst, and so passed by.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them: — read the full passage →

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the didrachma?” — read the full passage →

Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

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. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?” — read the full passage →

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. — read the full passage →

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” — read the full passage →

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

I and the Father are one.”

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. — read the full passage →

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.