Spiritual Blindness

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.

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

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

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.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

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;

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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.

“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 crushed,

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” — read the full passage →

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

“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.’

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

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

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

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

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!” — read the full passage →

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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.’

“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. — read the full passage →

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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.”

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. — read the full passage →

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — read the full passage →

But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

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 →

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; — read the full passage →

As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!” — read the full passage →

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. — read the full passage →

He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

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

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” — read the full passage →

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again, — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

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,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive. — read the full passage →

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; — read the full passage →

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

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 →

Jesus answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.