Deuteronomy 29:4

4But to this day athe Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

Proverbs 14:6

6 bA scoffer seeks wisdom cin vain,
but dknowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Isaiah 30:10-11

10 ewho say to fthe seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us gsmooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Ezekiel 14:4-10

4Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, hI the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 5 ithat I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, jwho are all estranged from me through their idols.

6Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: kRepent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, lwho separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, mI the Lord will answer him myself. 8And nI will set my face against that man; I owill make him a sign and a byword pand cut him off from the midst of my people, qand you shall know that I am the Lord. 9And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, rI, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10And they shall bear their punishment
Or iniquity; three times in this verse
—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—

Matthew 13:11

11And he answered them, tTo you it has been given to know uthe secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

3 vFor the time is coming when people will not endure wsound
Or healthy
teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4and ywill turn away from listening to the truth and zwander off into myths.
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