Mark 4:12 - Tree of Life Version

‘Seeing, they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand, so they may not turn back and be forgiven.’”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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)

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

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

'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

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 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 43:8

Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears.

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know or understand! For He smeared over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 36:3

Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity that I am planning to do to them, in order that they may turn, each one from his evil way. Then I would forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Hear this you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, ears to hear, but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Mark 8:18

Having eyes, don’t you see? And having ears, don’t you hear? And don’t you remember?

Luke 8:10

Then Yeshua said to them, “To you has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others it is given in parables, in order that ‘Seeing, they may not see, and hearing, they may not understand.’

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and return—so your sins might be blotted out,

Deuteronomy 29:4

I led you 40 years in the wilderness—your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

2 Timothy 2:25

Let him give guidance with humility to those who are in opposition—perhaps God may grant them a change of mind, leading to the knowledge of truth.

Hebrews 6:6

and then having fallen away—to renew again to repentance, since they are again crucifying Ben-Elohim for themselves and publicly disgracing Him.