Deuteronomy 29:4

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

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

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

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

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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.”

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

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

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

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:

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

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

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.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

“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 to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,