Matthew 13:15

New King James Version

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their heart is as fat as grease, But I delight in Your law.

Proverbs 16:30

He winks his eye to devise perverse things; He purses his lips and brings about evil.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

Isaiah 6:10

“Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return 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 deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.” “Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 33:6

Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Hosea 14:4

“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.

Malachi 4:2

But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

Mark 4:12

so that ‘Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Luke 19:42

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

Acts 28:27

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.” ’

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 7:57

Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord;

2 Timothy 4:4

and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

Hebrews 5:11

of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Revelation 22:2

In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.