Matthew 13:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might not look with their eyes, and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For this nation's heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, and grasp and understand with their heart, and turn and I should heal them. [Isa. 6:9, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For this people’s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ For this people’s senses have become calloused, and they’ve become hard of hearing, and they’ve shut their eyes so that they won’t see with their eyes or hear with their ears or understand with their minds, and change their hearts and lives that I may heal them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For the heart of this people has grown fat, and with their ears they hear heavily, and they have closed their eyes, lest at any time they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and then I would heal them.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Matthew 13:15 Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are thick like fat, but I delight in your law.

Proverbs 16:30

One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort,

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

Jeremiah 17:14

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

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. “Here we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 33:6

I am going to bring it recovery and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Mark 4:12

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

Luke 19:42

saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Acts 28:27

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might look with their eyes and listen with their ears and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

Acts 3:19

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

Acts 7:57

But they covered their ears, and with a loud shout all rushed together against him.

2 Timothy 4:4

and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Revelation 22:2

through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.