John 8:43 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁴³ Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴³ Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are shut to My teaching.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴³ Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

Common English Bible

⁴³ Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? It’s because you can’t really hear my words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴³ Why do you not recognize my speech? It is because you are not able to hear my word.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴³ Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

John 8:43 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 28:5

Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Isaiah 44:18

They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so that they cannot see, and their minds closed so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, ‘Go and tell this people: ‘ “Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.”

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so that they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise? Let them realise these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.

Matthew 13:15

For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”

John 5:25

Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.

John 5:43

I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

John 6:60

On hearing it, many of his disciples said, ‘This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?’

John 7:17

Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

John 8:27

They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.

John 8:33

They answered him, ‘We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?’

John 8:39

‘Abraham is our father,’ they answered. ‘If you were Abraham’s children,’ said Jesus, ‘then you would do what Abraham did.

Acts 7:51

‘You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: you always resist the Holy Spirit!

Romans 3:11

there is no-one who understands; there is no-one who seeks God.