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22 Bible Verses About Being Blind to the Truth

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Summary

  • John 3:19-20 gives the reason people stay in the dark as love of darkness and fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • Isaiah 6:9-10 is quoted in Matthew 13:14-15 to explain why Jesus speaks in parables, and in John 12:40 to explain why many did not believe.
  • Jesus tells the Pharisees in John 9:41 that their guilt remains because they claim they can see.
  • Mark 8, Luke 24, 2 Peter 1 and 1 John 2 apply the language of blindness to believers.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:16 says the veil is taken away whenever anyone turns to the Lord.

The Bible treats blindness to the truth as both a refusal and a judgment. People “loved darkness instead of light” (John 3:19), and Isaiah 6:9-10, quoted in Matthew 13:14-15 and John 12:40, sends a prophet whose message will close a people’s eyes. The same language is used of believers. Jesus asks his own disciples whether they have eyes but fail to see (Mark 8:18), and Revelation 3:17 calls a church blind. The passages on sight being given back include Paul’s…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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