John 8:43

Good News Translation

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not know what justice is, but those who worship the Lord understand it well.

Isaiah 44:18

Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.

Isaiah 6:9

So he told me to go and give the people this message: “No matter how much you listen, you will not understand. No matter how much you look, you will not know what is happening.”

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen to me if I spoke to them and warned them? They are stubborn and refuse to listen to your message; they laugh at what you tell me to say.

Hosea 14:9

May those who are wise understand what is written here, and may they take it to heart. The Lord's ways are right, and righteous people live by following them, but sinners stumble and fall because they ignore them.

Micah 4:12

But these nations do not know what is in the Lord's mind. They do not realize that they have been gathered together to be punished in the same way that grain is brought in to be threshed.

Matthew 13:15

because their minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and have closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.’

John 5:25

I am telling you the truth: the time is coming—the time has already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will come to life.

John 5:43

I have come with my Father's authority, but you have not received me; when, however, someone comes with his own authority, you will receive him.

John 6:60

Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?”

John 7:17

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

John 8:27

They did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

John 8:33

“We are the descendants of Abraham,” they answered, “and we have never been anybody's slaves. What do you mean, then, by saying, ‘You will be free’?”

John 8:39

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” “If you really were Abraham's children,” Jesus replied, “you would do the same things that he did.

Acts 7:51

“How stubborn you are!” Stephen went on to say. “How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!

Romans 3:11

no one who is wise or who worships God.