Spiritual Blindness

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

because <FI>it is<Fi> God who said, Out of darkness light <FI>is<Fi> to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And I have sent distress to men, And they have walked as the blind, For against Jehovah they have sinned, And poured out is their blood as dust, And their flesh <FI>is<Fi> as dung.

because thou sayest--I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

`He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'

And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' — read the full passage →

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret--that ye may not be wise in your own conceits--that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

`Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary--is debtor!

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

to open their eyes, to turn <FI>them<Fi> from darkness to light, and <FI>from<Fi> the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that <FI>is<Fi> toward me.

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth, — read the full passage →

`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel.

And Jesus passing on thence, two blind men followed him, calling and saying, `Deal kindly with us, Son of David.' — read the full passage →

Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?' — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner--I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These <FI>are<Fi> the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, — read the full passage →

And at dawn he came again to the temple, — read the full passage →

and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' --unto this very day,

and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during; — read the full passage →

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation, — read the full passage →

but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

`And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus,

again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; — read the full passage →

And Jesus passing on thence, two blind men followed him, calling and saying, `Deal kindly with us, Son of David.' — read the full passage →

in that day ye shall know that I <FI>am<Fi> in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you; — read the full passage →

he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name, — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?' — read the full passage →

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, — read the full passage →

Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said, — read the full passage →

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

put on the whole armour of God, for your being 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;

Because of this, among you many <FI>are<Fi> weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

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

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

that they may be judged--all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, — read the full passage →

saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, — read the full passage →

in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense, — read the full passage →

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

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; — read the full passage →

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; — read the full passage →

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

`If ye love me, my commands keep, — read the full passage →

and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;