TOPICAL STUDY

SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

DEU 29:4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see,

and ears to hear, unto this day.

DEU 32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any

understanding in them.

JDG 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out

of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake

myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

JOB 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the

knowledge of thy ways.

JOB 22:13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark

cloud?

JOB 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh

in the circuit of heaven.

PSA 10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his

sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

PSA 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt,

they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

PSA 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as

they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

PSA 73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

PSA 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness:

all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

PSA 92:6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

PSA 94:7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob

regard it.

PSA 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is

a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

PSA 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy

law.

PRO 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise

wisdom and instruction.

PRO 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners

delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

PRO 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the

LORD:

PRO 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they

stumble.

PRO 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of

wisdom.

PRO 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he

that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

PRO 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof

are the ways of death.

PRO 17:16 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom,

seeing he hath no heart to it?

PRO 19:2 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that

hasteth with his feet sinneth.

PRO 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD

understand all things.

ECC 7:25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom,

and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of

foolishness and madness:

ISA 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel

doth not know, my people doth not consider.

ISA 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no

knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up

with thirst.

ISA 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness

for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for

bitter!

ISA 5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their

own sight!

ISA 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand

not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

ISA 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut

their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and

understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

ISA 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that

dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

ISA 26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn

righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not

behold the majesty of the LORD.

ISA 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the

women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding:

therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them

will shew them no favour.

ISA 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept

upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;

that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

ISA 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and

hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

ISA 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that

is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray

thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

ISA 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from

the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

ISA 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,

and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

ISA 42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

ISA 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?

who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

ISA 42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he

heareth not.

ISA 44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that

they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

ISA 44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he

cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

ISA 48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time

that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very

treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

ISA 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb

dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

ISA 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness

the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon

thee.

JER 2:8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law

knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets

prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

JER 4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish

children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do

good they have no knowledge.

JER 5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they

know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

JER 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the

turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my

people know not the judgment of the LORD.

JER 9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not

valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and

they know not me, saith the LORD.

JER 9:6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse

to know me, saith the LORD.

JER 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these

words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this

great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have

committed against the LORD our God?

JER 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who

can know it?

EZE 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which

have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they

are a rebellious house.

DAN 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked

shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall

understand.

HOS 4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a

controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor

mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

HOS 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast

rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:

seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

HOS 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your

spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and

they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall

fall.

HOS 5:4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit

of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

HOS 7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,

they go to Assyria.

AMO 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The

evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

MIC 4:12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they

his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

MAT 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a

candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

MAT 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,

and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

MAT 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If

therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

MAT 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not;

and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

MAT 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By

hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and

shall not perceive:

MAT 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of

hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with

their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and

should be converted, and I should heal them.

MAT 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they

hear.

MAT 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it

not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his

heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

MAT 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind

lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

MAT 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red

and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not

discern the signs of the times?

MAT 22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the

scriptures, nor the power of God.

MAT 23:19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar

that sanctifieth the gift?

MAT 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

MAT 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and

platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

MAR 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the

kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in

parables:

MAR 4:12 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.

MAR 4:15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when

they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was

sown in their hearts.

MAR 6:52 For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was

hardened.

MAR 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye

not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it

cannot defile him;

LUK 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to

preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to

preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set

at liberty them that are bruised,

LUK 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and

taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

LUK 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:

ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

LUK 12:48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall

be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be

much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the

more.

LUK 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the

things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

LUK 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they

do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

JOH 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it

not.

JOH 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he

enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

JOH 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

JOH 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the

light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

JOH 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is

earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

JOH 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and

who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him,

and he would have given thee living water.

JOH 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man

give us his flesh to eat?

JOH 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This

is an hard saying; who can hear it?

JOH 7:28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me,

and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is

true, whom ye know not.

JOH 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world:

he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of

life.

JOH 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my

word.

JOH 9:30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing,

that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

JOH 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they

which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

JOH 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he

spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord

been revealed?

JOH 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it

seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,

and shall be in you.

JOH 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,

because they know not him that sent me.

JOH 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that

whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

JOH 17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known

thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

ACT 3:17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also

your rulers.

ACT 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew

him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day,

they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

ACT 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with

this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him

declare I unto you.

ACT 19:2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?

And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy

Ghost.

ACT 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from

the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and

inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

ROM 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God

hath shewed it unto them.

ROM 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are

clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal

power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

ROM 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,

neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish

heart was darkened.

ROM 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

ROM 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God

gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

ROM 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this

mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is

happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

1CO 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but

unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1CO 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this

world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1CO 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God,

it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1CO 2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it,

they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1CO 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for

they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are

spiritually discerned.

1CO 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge

of God: I speak this to your shame.

2CO 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same

vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away

in Christ.

2CO 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their

heart.

2CO 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

2CO 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which

believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image

of God, should shine unto them.

2CO 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined

in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the

face of Jesus Christ.

GAL 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by

nature are no gods.

EPH 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of

God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their

heart:

EPH 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk

as children of light:

COL 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated

us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

1TH 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in

sanctification and honour;

1TH 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not

God:

1TH 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because

that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and

testified.

1TH 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

2TH 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that

obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2TH 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they

should believe a lie:

2TI 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

TIT 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being

abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

HEB 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye

are dull of hearing.

1PE 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the

former lusts in your ignorance:

1PE 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a

peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called

you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

2PE 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and

hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2PE 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in

which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and

unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own

destruction.

1JO 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we

lie, and do not the truth:

1JO 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,

and the truth is not in him.

1JO 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in

darkness even until now.

1JO 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in

darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded

his eyes.

1JO 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we

should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it

knew him not.

1JO 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen

him, neither known him.

1JO 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

3JO 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He

that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

JUD 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what

they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

REV 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have

need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and

poor, and blind, and naked.