1 John 2:11

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.