What Does the Bible Say About Eyes And Ears?

Acts 28:27 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Acts 28:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

Jeremiah 5:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Matthew 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: “‘“You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

Isaiah 45:22-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ “Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him. In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”

Job 42:4-6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

John 8:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

Matthew 13:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Numbers 12:4-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” ...

Colossians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

By canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Psalm 119:128 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.

Job 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

2 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Titus 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

John 14:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

1 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ...

Deuteronomy 7:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

Ephesians 1:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Galatians 3:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

Galatians 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Romans 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”

Acts 17:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 9:17-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ...

Mark 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Ezekiel 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.

Isaiah 45:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’” Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands? I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

Isaiah 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Galatians 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

1 Corinthians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Ruth 4:16-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, ...

60 Bible Verses about Eyes And Ears

Acts 28:27 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 28:26 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 5:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:22-25 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 42:4-6 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:4 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 12:4-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:128 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 1:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 1:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 11:1-43 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 7:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 3:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 16:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 9:17-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 28:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 6:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 45:9-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 3:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 4:16-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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