Romans 11:8

Modern English Version

As it is written: “God has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

Cross References

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not fear the Lord, nor are they doing according to the statutes, requirements, the law or commandment that the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord and were serving their carved images, both their children and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, and so they are doing to this day.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see and does not see, ears to hear and does not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 20:26

And I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened the womb, that I might make them desolate in order that they might know that I am the Lord.

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people and say: You shall certainly hear, but never understand; and you shall certainly see, but never perceive;

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.