• 1 Corinthians 2:10-16
  But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
   
• Matthew 13:9-17
  He who has ears to hear, let him hear!" And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
  " Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
  And seeing you will see and not perceive;
  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." But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
   
• 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
  But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
   
• Luke 12:48
  But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
   
• John 8:43
  Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.
   
• John 8:47
  He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."
   
• John 14:26
  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.
   
• Deuteronomy 29:4
  Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.
   
• Deuteronomy 29:29
  “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
   
• Psalm 111:10
  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
  A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.
  His praise endures forever.
  
   
• Matthew 11:25
  At that time Jesus answered and said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.
   
• John 6:60-62
  Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
   
• Romans 11:7-8
  What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Just as it is written:
  'God has given them a spirit of stupor,
  Eyes that they should not see
  And ears that they should not hear,
  To this very day.'
   
• 1 Corinthians 2:6
  However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:6-11
  And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
   
• 2 Corinthians 3:14-16
  But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
   
• 2 Timothy 1:7
  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
   
• Revelation 3:18-19
  I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
   
• Deuteronomy 28:28
  The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of heart.
   
• Proverbs 2:1-6
  My son, if you receive my words,
  And treasure my commands within you,
  So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
  And apply your heart to understanding;
  Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
  And lift up your voice for understanding,
  If you seek her as silver,
  And search for her as for hidden treasures;
  Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
  And find the knowledge of God.
  For the LORD gives wisdom;
  From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
  
   
• Matthew 13:19
  When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.
   
• 1 Corinthians 12:4
  There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
   
• Colossians 1:26
  the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.
   
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11
  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
   
• Hebrews 5:12
  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
   
• 1 John 4:1
  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
   
• 1 John 4:5-6
  They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
   
• Isaiah 28:13
  But the word of the LORD was to them,
  ' Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
  Line upon line, line upon line,
  Here a little, there a little,'
  That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
  And snared and caught.
  
   
• Matthew 13:35
  that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
  “ I will open My mouth in parables;
  I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
   

Related Scriptures

• John 6:44-45
  No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall all be taught by God.'Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
   
• Luke 12:47
  And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
   
• Romans 15:4
  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
   
• Ephesians 1:3
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
   
• Deuteronomy 32:28-29
  “For they are a nation void of counsel,
  Nor is there any understanding in them. Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
  That they would consider their latter end!
   
• 1 Kings 3:9
  Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?"
   
• Proverbs 1:7
  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
  But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
   
• Proverbs 2:7
  He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
  He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
  
   
• Proverbs 25:2
  It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
  But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.