Mark 4:12 - New Revised Standard Version

¹² in order that ‘they may indeed look, but not perceive, and may indeed listen, but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² In order that they may [indeed] look and look but not see and perceive, and may hear and hear but not grasp and comprehend, lest haply they should turn again, and it [their willful rejection of the truth] should be forgiven them. [Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:13-15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

Common English Bible

¹² This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 'so that, seeing, they may see, and not perceive; and hearing, they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they may be converted, and their sins would be forgiven them.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² 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.

Mark 4:12 Cross References

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, nor do they comprehend; for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 36:3

It may be that when the house of Judah hears of all the disasters that I intend to do to them, all of them may turn from their evil ways, so that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see, who have ears, but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

Mortal, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear;

Mark 8:18

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

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive, and listening they may not understand.’

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,

Deuteronomy 29:4

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

2 Timothy 2:25

correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth,

Hebrews 6:6

and then have fallen away, since on their own they are crucifying again the Son of God and are holding him up to contempt.